-31%
Barclay College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Barclay College are 30% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($36.4k vs $52.3k).
State hub · Kansas · vintage 2025-05
Kansas Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Kansas — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Kansas
Top signals rolled up across Kansasinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-15%
Central Christian College of Kansas · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Central Christian College of Kansas are 15% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($44.5k vs $52.3k).
-12%
Sterling College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Sterling College are 12% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($45.8k vs $52.3k).
8.9%
Barclay College · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 8.9% at Barclay College exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($24.3k debt amortized over 10 years vs $36.4k earnings).
-90%
Barclay College · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Barclay College fell 90% between 2021 and 2024 (33.3% → 3.2%).
-80%
Kansas Christian College · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Kansas Christian College fell 80% between 2021 and 2024 (50.0% → 9.8%).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Kansas Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
68
Title-IV main campuses3,136
with published outcomes$45,407
across institutions46.4%
median across institutions128,733
latest historical vintage$8,400
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Kansas has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+23%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
38.9% → 47.7%
+282%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,200 → $8,400
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
22 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 22 of 68 Title-IV institutions · Public 33 · Private 23 · For-profit 12
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 44 Kansas cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Andover
- Arkansas City
- Atchison
- Baldwin City
- Beloit
- Chanute
- Coffeyville
- Colby
- Concordia
- Dodge City
- El Dorado
- Emporia
- Fort Scott
- Garden City
- Goodland
- Great Bend
- Haviland
- Hays
- Hesston
- Highland
- Hillsboro
- Hutchinson
- Independence
- Iola
- Kansas City
- Lawrence
- Leavenworth
- Leawood
- Liberal
- Lindsborg
- Manhattan
- McPherson
- North Newton
- Olathe
- Ottawa
- Overland Park
- Parsons
- Pittsburg
- Pratt
- Salina
- Sterling
- Topeka
- Wichita
- Winfield
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.