-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Northwest College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (6.4% → 0.0%).
Wyoming · Public · Predominantly associate's
Northwest College
Powell, Wyoming. 826 undergraduate students. 65 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Northwest College
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.
+25%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Northwest College rose 25% between 2021 and 2024 (38.9% → 48.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Wyoming
Each tile compares this institution to the Wyoming median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$36,950+11% · 6→10y
Wyoming median $40,706$33,237
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry43.8%+81% · '97→'24
Wyoming median 43.3%$6,500+228% · '97→'20
At program completion826-47% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—-2% · '04→'20
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,935+208% · '00→'24
out-of-state $11,235SECTION 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
2.3%Median federal debt $6,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $36,950 (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.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+81%
Northwest College · completion · 150% rose
26.9% → 48.7%
-47%
Northwest College · undergrad enrollment fell
1,677 → 890
+208%
Northwest College · in-state tuition rose
$1,610 → $4,962
+191%
Northwest College · out-of-state tuition rose
$3,866 → $11,262
+228%
Northwest College · median debt rose
$3,053 → $10,000
-100%
Northwest College · cohort default rate fell
10.7% → 0.0%
-45%
Northwest College · pell share fell
32.5% → 17.8%
+34%
Northwest College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$26,400 → $35,250
+32%
Northwest College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$25,100 → $33,237
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
3 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Northwest College
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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$115,360
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $8,598
- HS-only baseline · WY
- $39,400
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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 Wyoming
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Northwest College graduates earn $X” — not “Northwest College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Northwest College 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.