+22%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology rose 22% between 2005 and 2008 ($2.1k → $2.6k).
Iowa · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 21 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology
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.
+28%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology rose 28% between 2006 and 2009 (78.3% → 100.0%).
+22%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology rose 22% between 2005 and 2008 ($2.1k → $2.6k).
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$55,568
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—+21% · '97→'09
Iowa median 58.4%—
At program completion21-36% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+33% · '04→'08
first-time, full-time—-23% · '01→'08
latest cohort—+131% · '01→'08
annualSECTION 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.
+21%
Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology · completion · 150% rose
82.3% → 100.0%
+33%
Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology · retention rose
75.0% → 100.0%
+131%
Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology · in-state tuition rose
$1,125 → $2,600
+131%
Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,125 → $2,600
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology
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 Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology(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
“Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology graduates earn $X” — not “Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Mercy-St Luke's School of Radiologic Technology 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.