-72%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Osceola Technical College fell 72% between 2021 and 2024 (67.2% → 18.8%).
Florida · Public · Predominantly certificates
Osceola Technical College
Kissimmee, Florida. 480 undergraduate students. 28 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Osceola 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.
+104%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Osceola Technical College rose 104% between 2006 and 2009 (25.9% → 52.7%).
+60%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Osceola Technical College rose 60% between 2021 and 2024 (325 → 519).
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.
$38,484+17% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$32,858
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry54.1%-47% · '01→'09
Florida median 65.6%—
At program completion480
latest IPEDS30.0%-78% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
-47%
Osceola Technical College · completion · 150% fell
100.0% → 52.7%
-78%
Osceola Technical College · retention fell
87.0% → 18.8%
+260%
Osceola Technical College · undergrad enrollment rose
0 → 519
+136%
Osceola Technical College · pell share rose
13.5% → 31.9%
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.
Criminal Justice and Corrections.$57,245Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$46,376Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.$45,963Health and Medical Administrative Services.$34,979Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$31,848Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services.$21,744
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
6 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
CONSTRUCTION TRADES · CIP 46
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Osceola 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$36,371
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $4,815
- HS-only baseline · FL
- $35,400
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 51
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
“Osceola Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “Osceola Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Osceola 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.