+387%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Arkansas Welding Academy rose 387% between 2021 and 2024 (15 → 73).
Arkansas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Arkansas Welding Academy
Jacksonville, Arkansas. 74 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Arkansas Welding Academy
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.
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Arkansas
Each tile compares this institution to the Arkansas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Arkansas median $34,871—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry79.7%
Arkansas median 47.1%$5,500
At program completion74+387% · '18→'24
latest IPEDS96.2%-2% · '20→'24
first-time, full-time—-22% · '20→'21
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+29%
Arkansas Welding Academy · undergrad enrollment rose
15 → 73
+91%
Arkansas Welding Academy · pell share rose
37.2% → 71.0%
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Arkansas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Arkansas Welding Academy graduates earn $X” — not “Arkansas Welding Academy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Arkansas Welding Academy 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.