+159%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Florida Polytechnic University rose 159% between 2017 and 2020 ($5.5k → $14.2k).
Florida · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
Florida Polytechnic University
Lakeland, Florida. 1,556 undergraduate students. 17 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Florida Polytechnic University
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 Florida Polytechnic University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.2% → 0.0%).
+15%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Florida Polytechnic University rose 15% between 2021 and 2024 (1.5k → 1.7k).
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.
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Florida median $36,288$77,545
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry53.0%+10% · '20→'24
Florida median 65.6%$7,500+159% · '17→'20
At program completion1,556+17% · '17→'24
latest IPEDS75.4%+4% · '17→'24
first-time, full-time55.7%+4% · '17→'24
latest cohort$4,940±0% · '17→'24
out-of-state $21,005SECTION 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.
+325%
Florida Polytechnic University · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,940 → $21,005
+159%
Florida Polytechnic University · median debt rose
$5,500 → $14,250
+124%
Florida Polytechnic University · pell share rose
14.6% → 32.6%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Florida Polytechnic University
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 Mechanical Engineering · Bachelor's Degree at Florida Polytechnic University(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 Florida
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Florida Polytechnic University graduates earn $X” — not “Florida Polytechnic University makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Florida Polytechnic University 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.