-22%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Chipola College fell 22% between 2013 and 2016 ($4.5k → $3.5k).
Florida · Public · Predominantly associate's
Chipola College
Marianna, Florida. 1,218 undergraduate students. 32 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Chipola 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.
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Florida
Each tile compares this institution to the Florida median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$37,378+16% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$32,129
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry61.3%+157% · '97→'24
Florida median 65.6%—+33% · '97→'16
At program completion1,218-1% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,120+109% · '00→'24
out-of-state $8,950SECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+157%
Chipola College · completion · 150% rose
20.7% → 53.1%
+1285%
Chipola College · retention rose
0.0% → 64.3%
+109%
Chipola College · in-state tuition rose
$1,490 → $3,120
+63%
Chipola College · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,486 → $8,950
+33%
Chipola College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $3,500
-100%
Chipola College · cohort default rate fell
12.7% → 0.0%
+298%
Chipola College · pell share rose
6.7% → 26.8%
+33%
Chipola College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$28,000 → $37,378
+34%
Chipola College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$26,700 → $35,767
+32%
Chipola College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$24,300 → $32,129
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.$67,028Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$44,342Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$38,983Business Administration, Management and Operations.$38,330Criminal Justice and Corrections.$34,734
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
5 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
EDUCATION · CIP 13
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Chipola College
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
$109,083
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 14
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $2,531
- HS-only baseline · FL
- $35,400
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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 Florida
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Chipola College graduates earn $X” — not “Chipola College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Chipola 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.