+32%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Palmer College of Chiropractic rose 32% between 2014 and 2017 ($7.5k → $9.9k).
Iowa · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Palmer College of Chiropractic
Davenport, Iowa. 41 undergraduate students. 4 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Palmer College of Chiropractic
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.
+49%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Palmer College of Chiropractic are 49% above 6-year earnings ($40.0k → $59.5k).
+10%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Palmer College of Chiropractic rose 10% between 2021 and 2024 (39 → 43).
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.
$59,483+49% · 6→10y
Iowa median $42,849$40,025
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—-100% · '97→'23
Iowa median 58.4%$7,500+80% · '97→'17
At program completion41+19% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—-29% · '04→'16
first-time, full-time—±0% · '01→'15
latest cohort—+91% · '01→'18
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
1.7%Median federal debt $7,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $59,483 (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.
-100%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · completion · 150% fell
72.4% → 0.0%
-100%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · completion · 100% fell
40.0% → 0.0%
-29%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · retention fell
70.0% → 50.0%
+91%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · in-state tuition rose
$4,830 → $9,225
+91%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,830 → $9,225
+80%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · median debt rose
$5,500 → $9,901
-100%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · cohort default rate fell
3.5% → 0.0%
-67%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · pell share fell
64.3% → 21.3%
+72%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · earnings_median_10yr rose
$34,600 → $59,483
+44%
Palmer College of Chiropractic · earnings_median_6yr rose
$27,700 → $40,025
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.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Palmer College of Chiropractic
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 Chiropractic · First Professional Degree at Palmer College of Chiropractic(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
“Palmer College of Chiropractic graduates earn $X” — not “Palmer College of Chiropractic makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Palmer College of Chiropractic 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.