-67%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Divine Word College fell 67% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 33.3%).
Iowa · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Divine Word College
Epworth, Iowa. 61 undergraduate students. 9 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Divine Word 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 Divine Word College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.7% → 0.0%).
+12%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Divine Word College rose 12% between 2003 and 2006 ($9.0k → $10.1k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Iowa
Each tile compares this institution to the Iowa median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Iowa median $42,849—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%+111% · '97→'24
Iowa median 58.4%—+127% · '97→'06
At program completion61-43% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—-59% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—+165% · '01→'21
latest cohort$15,000+86% · '00→'24
out-of-state $15,000SECTION 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.
+111%
Divine Word College · completion · 150% rose
47.4% → 100.0%
+250%
Divine Word College · completion · 100% rose
28.6% → 100.0%
-59%
Divine Word College · retention fell
82.0% → 33.3%
-25%
Divine Word College · undergrad enrollment fell
113 → 64
+86%
Divine Word College · in-state tuition rose
$8,400 → $15,600
+86%
Divine Word College · out-of-state tuition rose
$8,400 → $15,600
+127%
Divine Word College · median debt rose
$4,425 → $10,063
-79%
Divine Word College · pell share fell
47.5% → 9.8%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Divine Word 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 Philosophy · Bachelor's Degree at Divine Word 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 Iowa
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Divine Word College graduates earn $X” — not “Divine Word College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Divine Word 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.