-26%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College are 26% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($28.5k vs $38.6k).
Illinois · Public · Predominantly certificates
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College
Chicago, Illinois. 1,564 undergraduate students. 39 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.7% → 0.0%).
+64%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College rose 64% between 2021 and 2024 (1.1k → 1.8k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Illinois
Each tile compares this institution to the Illinois median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$28,467+29% · 6→10y
Illinois median $40,810$22,119
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry25.5%-13% · '97→'09
Illinois median 53.3%$4,994+34% · '97→'20
At program completion1,564-56% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS44.2%+18% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,380+177% · '00→'24
out-of-state $14,430SECTION 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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
2.3%Median federal debt $4,994 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $28,467 (10y after entry).
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.
+18%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · retention rose
42.0% → 49.6%
-56%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · undergrad enrollment fell
4,011 → 1,777
+177%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · in-state tuition rose
$1,659 → $4,590
+117%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · out-of-state tuition rose
$6,976 → $15,150
+34%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · median debt rose
$4,597 → $6,180
-100%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · cohort default rate fell
20.1% → 0.0%
+318%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · pell share rose
9.2% → 38.2%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King 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 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree at City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King 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
Same sector and degree mix in Illinois
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College graduates earn $X” — not “City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King 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.