-25%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at H W Brewster Technical College are 25% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($27.1k vs $36.0k).
Florida · Public · Predominantly certificates
H W Brewster Technical College
H.W. Brewster Technical College is a public technical college in Tampa, Florida, part of Hillsborough County Public Schools, offering certificate programs in health care, the trades, and business.
1,502 undergraduate students. 13 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
Earnings, completion, debt, and enrollment anomalies at H W Brewster Technical 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.
-73%
First-year retention
First-year retention at H W Brewster Technical College fell 72% between 2021 and 2024 (8.9% → 2.5%).
-63%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at H W Brewster Technical College fell 63% between 2006 and 2009 (62.1% → 23.0%).
-26pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 26 pp at H W Brewster Technical College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (52.9% vs 78.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
H W Brewster Technical College earnings, debt, and completion vs. the Florida median
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.
$27,053+0% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$26,998
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry52.9%-63% · '99→'09
Florida median 65.6%—
At program completion1,502+71% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS1.8%-96% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How H W Brewster Technical College 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
H W Brewster Technical College enrollment, completion, and debt over time
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
-63%
H W Brewster Technical College · completion · 150% fell
62.4% → 23.0%
-96%
H W Brewster Technical College · retention fell
68.0% → 2.5%
+71%
H W Brewster Technical College · undergrad enrollment rose
407 → 695
-92%
H W Brewster Technical College · pell share fell
28.8% → 2.3%
+27%
H W Brewster Technical College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$21,300 → $27,053
+49%
H W Brewster Technical College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,900 → $32,574
+40%
H W Brewster Technical College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$19,300 → $26,998
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at H W Brewster Technical 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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at H W Brewster Technical College(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
Institutions similar to H W Brewster Technical College in Florida
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“H W Brewster Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “H W Brewster Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending H W Brewster Technical 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.