-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Fortis College-Dothan fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (7.1% → 0.0%).
Alabama · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Fortis College-Dothan
Dothan, Alabama. 154 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Fortis College-Dothan
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.
+34%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Fortis College-Dothan are 34% above the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($32.8k vs $24.4k).
+28%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Fortis College-Dothan rose 28% between 2021 and 2024 (52.0% → 66.7%).
+26%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Fortis College-Dothan rose 26% between 2021 and 2024 (141 → 177).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Alabama
Each tile compares this institution to the Alabama median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$32,754+21% · 6→10y
Alabama median $39,017$27,043
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry56.2%
Alabama median 43.4%$9,396+101% · '09→'20
At program completion154+160% · '09→'24
latest IPEDS76.2%-5% · '09→'24
first-time, full-time—+66% · '11→'12
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
3.8%Median federal debt $9,396 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $32,754 (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.
+55%
Fortis College-Dothan · undergrad enrollment rose
68 → 177
+101%
Fortis College-Dothan · median debt rose
$4,729 → $9,500
-100%
Fortis College-Dothan · cohort default rate fell
4.9% → 0.0%
+57%
Fortis College-Dothan · earnings_median_10yr rose
$20,800 → $32,754
+33%
Fortis College-Dothan · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,700 → $28,875
+45%
Fortis College-Dothan · earnings_median_6yr rose
$18,700 → $27,043
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
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Alabama
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Fortis College-Dothan graduates earn $X” — not “Fortis College-Dothan makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Fortis College-Dothan 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.