Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia rose 62% between 2007 and 2010 ($6.7k → $10.9k).
Visalia, California. 2,270 undergraduate students. 40 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
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.
Median federal debt at exit at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia rose 62% between 2007 and 2010 ($6.7k → $10.9k).
3-year cohort default rate at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.1% → 0.0%).
Out-of-state tuition at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia rose 28% between 2010 and 2013 ($12.9k → $16.6k).
150%-time completion fell 6 pp at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia vs the 2018–2022 baseline (33.9% vs 40.0%).
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.
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).
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.
Median federal debt $9,773 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $38,317 (10y after entry).
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
19.3% → 36.5%
51.0% → 87.7%
389 → 1,361
$8,000 → $12,925
$8,000 → $16,606
$6,625 → $10,919
18.4% → 0.0%
$28,200 → $36,746
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.
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia 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.