-48%
Mitchell College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Mitchell College are 47% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($39.1k vs $74.4k).
State hub · Connecticut · vintage 2025-05
Connecticut Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Connecticut — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Connecticut
Top signals rolled up across Connecticutinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-31%
American Institute-West Hartford · For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at American Institute-West Hartford are 31% below the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($28.7k vs $41.6k).
-26%
Paul Mitchell the School-North Haven · For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Paul Mitchell the School-North Haven are 26% below the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($30.9k vs $41.6k).
-16%
Cortiva Institute · For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Cortiva Institute are 16% below the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($34.9k vs $41.6k).
-93%
TIGI Hairdressing Academy Newtown · First-year retention
First-year retention at TIGI Hairdressing Academy Newtown fell 93% between 2021 and 2024 (82.3% → 5.6%).
+62%
Holy Apostles College and Seminary · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Holy Apostles College and Seminary rose 62% between 2019 and 2020 ($7.8k → $12.5k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Connecticut Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
46
Title-IV main campuses2,206
with published outcomes$57,515
across institutions70.2%
median across institutions144,535
latest historical vintage$35,760
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Connecticut has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+88%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
76,963 → 144,535
+138%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$15,012 → $35,760
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
21 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 21 of 46 Title-IV institutions · Public 11 · Private 16 · For-profit 19
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 26 Connecticut cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.