+273%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Platt College-Aurora rose 273% between 2006 and 2009 ($9.6k → $35.9k).
Colorado · Private for-profit · Predominantly bachelor's
Platt College-Aurora
Greenwood Village, Colorado. 215 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Platt College-Aurora
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.
-84%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Platt College-Aurora fell 84% between 2006 and 2009 (47.1% → 7.7%).
-33pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 33 pp at Platt College-Aurora vs the 2003–2007 baseline (20.0% vs 52.6%).
+11%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Platt College-Aurora rose 11% between 2006 and 2009 ($19.8k → $22.0k).
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.
$77,602-0% · 6→10y
Colorado median $43,242$77,963
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry20.0%-91% · '97→'09
Colorado median 55.5%$33,443+191% · '97→'09
At program completion215-4% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS83.3%-17% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time36.4%-67% · '01→'09
latest cohort$20,590+48% · '05→'09
out-of-state $20,590SECTION 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
5.7%Median federal debt $33,443 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $77,602 (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.
-91%
Platt College-Aurora · completion · 150% fell
82.2% → 7.7%
-17%
Platt College-Aurora · retention fell
100.0% → 83.3%
+48%
Platt College-Aurora · in-state tuition rose
$14,800 → $21,975
+48%
Platt College-Aurora · out-of-state tuition rose
$14,800 → $21,975
+191%
Platt College-Aurora · median debt rose
$12,333 → $35,868
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Platt College-Aurora
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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Bachelor's Degree at Platt College-Aurora(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
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
“Platt College-Aurora graduates earn $X” — not “Platt College-Aurora makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Platt College-Aurora 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.