-88%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine fell 88% between 2021 and 2024 (8 → 1).
Wisconsin · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine
Racine, Wisconsin. 3 undergraduate students. 4 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+54%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine are 54% above the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($44.1k vs $28.7k).
+67%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine rose 67% between 2013 and 2016 ($12.5k → $20.8k).
+29%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine are 29% above 8-year earnings ($34.1k → $44.1k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Wisconsin
Each tile compares this institution to the Wisconsin median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$44,136+29% · 8→10y
Wisconsin median $46,297—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
Wisconsin median 58.4%$15,000+32% · '97→'16
At program completion3-99% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
4.5%Median federal debt $15,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $44,136 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-56%
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine · undergrad enrollment fell
113 → 1
+32%
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine · median debt rose
$15,725 → $20,834
-100%
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine · cohort default rate fell
3.4% → 0.0%
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems · Master's Degree at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Wisconsin
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine graduates earn $X” — not “Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.