+12%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Colorado School of Mines rose 12% between 2021 and 2024 ($19.5k → $21.9k).
Colorado · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
Mines
Golden, Colorado. 5,801 undergraduate students. 89 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Mines
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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Colorado School of Mines fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (0.5% → 0.0%).
+12%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Colorado School of Mines rose 12% between 2021 and 2024 ($40.8k → $45.8k).
+82%
Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Colorado School of Mines are 82% above the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($97.3k vs $53.4k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Colorado
Each tile compares this institution to the Colorado median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$97,335+17% · 6→10y
Colorado median $43,242$82,950
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry79.4%+39% · '97→'24
Colorado median 55.5%$17,500+94% · '97→'20
At program completion5,801+157% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS93.0%+10% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time59.7%-25% · '01→'24
latest cohort$21,186+305% · '00→'24
out-of-state $44,376SECTION 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
2.4%Median federal debt $17,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $97,335 (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.
+39%
Mines · completion · 150% rose
59.0% → 81.7%
+164%
Mines · completion · 100% rose
25.4% → 67.0%
+10%
Mines · retention rose
84.0% → 92.8%
+157%
Mines · undergrad enrollment rose
2,398 → 6,155
+305%
Mines · in-state tuition rose
$5,412 → $21,914
+187%
Mines · out-of-state tuition rose
$15,966 → $45,824
+94%
Mines · median debt rose
$11,857 → $23,000
-100%
Mines · cohort default rate fell
3.2% → 0.0%
+24%
Mines · earnings_median_10yr rose
$78,400 → $97,335
+27%
Mines · earnings_median_8yr rose
$71,200 → $90,777
+36%
Mines · earnings_median_6yr rose
$61,200 → $82,950
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.
Computer Science.$136,319Economics.$128,586Mining and Mineral Engineering.$121,247Mechanical Engineering.$116,080Mathematics.$112,896Petroleum Engineering.$105,804Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$103,408Biomedical/Medical Engineering.$100,802Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.$99,218Engineering Physics.$96,528Chemical Engineering.$95,781Civil Engineering.$95,768Metallurgical Engineering.$93,910Engineering, General.$93,878Mechanical Engineering.$93,871Civil Engineering.$91,060Applied Mathematics.$89,416Geological/Geophysical Engineering.$84,373Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.$83,766Chemistry.$64,667
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
20 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
Mechanical Engineering.$93,871Chemical Engineering.$95,781Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$103,408Civil Engineering.$91,060Petroleum Engineering.$105,804Engineering Physics.$96,528Mechanical Engineering.$116,080Metallurgical Engineering.$93,910Civil Engineering.$95,768Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.$83,766Geological/Geophysical Engineering.$84,373Mining and Mineral Engineering.$121,247Biomedical/Medical Engineering.$100,802Engineering, General.$93,878
MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS · CIP 27
PHYSICAL SCIENCES · CIP 40
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Mines
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
$1,067,103
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 7
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $25,347
- HS-only baseline · CO
- $40,100
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 14
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 Colorado
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Mines graduates earn $X” — not “Mines makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Mines 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.