+135%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at La James International College-Cedar Falls rose 135% between 2021 and 2024 (23 → 54).
Iowa · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
La James International College-Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls, Iowa. 40 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at La James International College-Cedar Falls
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 La James International College-Cedar Falls fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (8.7% → 0.0%).
+36%
First-year retention
First-year retention at La James International College-Cedar Falls rose 36% between 2021 and 2024 (70.0% → 95.2%).
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.
$25,575+17% · 6→10y
Iowa median $42,849$21,855
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%+6% · '97→'09
Iowa median 58.4%$7,917+274% · '97→'17
At program completion40+29% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS77.8%+11% · '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 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
4.1%Median federal debt $7,917 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $25,575 (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.
+11%
La James International College-Cedar Falls · retention rose
86.0% → 95.2%
+274%
La James International College-Cedar Falls · median debt rose
$3,209 → $12,000
-60%
La James International College-Cedar Falls · cohort default rate fell
1.2% → 0.0%
+102%
La James International College-Cedar Falls · pell share rose
37.3% → 75.4%
+25%
La James International College-Cedar Falls · earnings_median_10yr rose
$20,400 → $25,575
+64%
La James International College-Cedar Falls · earnings_median_8yr rose
$17,000 → $27,901
+46%
La James International College-Cedar Falls · earnings_median_6yr rose
$14,900 → $21,855
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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at La James International College-Cedar Falls
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
-$214,947
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $20,282
- HS-only baseline · IA
- $36,800
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
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
“La James International College-Cedar Falls graduates earn $X” — not “La James International College-Cedar Falls makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending La James International College-Cedar Falls 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.