-16%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College are 16% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($32.4k vs $38.6k).
Illinois · Public · Predominantly certificates
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College
Chicago, Illinois. 5,847 undergraduate students. 26 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X 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-Malcolm X College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.2% → 0.0%).
+20%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College rose 20% between 2017 and 2020 ($7.0k → $8.4k).
+23%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College rose 23% between 2021 and 2024 (5.2k → 6.4k).
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.
$32,427+21% · 6→10y
Illinois median $40,810$26,891
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry14.4%-25% · '97→'09
Illinois median 53.3%$6,100+219% · '97→'20
At program completion5,847+72% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS56.8%+19% · '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
2.5%Median federal debt $6,100 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $32,427 (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.
-25%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · completion · 150% fell
14.7% → 11.0%
+19%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · retention rose
47.0% → 55.8%
+72%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · undergrad enrollment rose
3,728 → 6,409
+177%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · in-state tuition rose
$1,659 → $4,590
+117%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · out-of-state tuition rose
$6,976 → $15,150
+219%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $8,375
-100%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · cohort default rate fell
29.1% → 0.0%
+690%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College · pell share rose
5.3% → 41.9%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X 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-Malcolm X 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-Malcolm X College graduates earn $X” — not “City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X 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.