-19%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Imperial Valley College are 18% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($34.5k vs $42.3k).
California · Public · Predominantly associate's
Imperial Valley College
Imperial, California. 6,881 undergraduate students. 86 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Imperial Valley 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.
+101%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Imperial Valley College rose 101% between 2007 and 2010 (11.7% → 23.6%).
+33%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Imperial Valley College rose 33% between 2021 and 2024 ($6.6k → $8.9k).
+42%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Imperial Valley College rose 42% between 2007 and 2010 (5.2k → 7.4k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. California
Each tile compares this institution to the California median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$34,487+23% · 6→10y
California median $42,588$28,114
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry46.3%+159% · '97→'10
California median 61.3%—
At program completion6,881+44% · '96→'10
latest IPEDS78.9%+9% · '04→'10
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$1,126+110% · '00→'10
out-of-state $7,990SECTION 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 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.
+159%
Imperial Valley College · completion · 150% rose
9.1% → 23.6%
+35%
Imperial Valley College · completion · 100% rose
6.6% → 9.0%
+44%
Imperial Valley College · undergrad enrollment rose
5,133 → 7,406
+40%
Imperial Valley College · in-state tuition rose
$364 → $763
+162%
Imperial Valley College · out-of-state tuition rose
$3,384 → $8,852
+40%
Imperial Valley College · pell share rose
39.4% → 54.9%
+41%
Imperial Valley College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$23,800 → $33,537
+39%
Imperial Valley College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$20,200 → $28,114
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.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$91,048Biological and Physical Sciences.$49,513Business Administration, Management and Operations.$46,467Criminal Justice and Corrections.$38,973Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$37,047Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$35,757Psychology, General.$33,910Social Sciences, General.$31,267Psychology, Other.$31,147
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
9 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
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in California
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Imperial Valley College graduates earn $X” — not “Imperial Valley College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Imperial Valley 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.