-91%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Simmons College of Kentucky fell 91% between 2021 and 2024 (28.6% → 2.6%).
Kentucky · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Simmons College of Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky. 381 undergraduate students. 14 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Simmons College of Kentucky
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.
+195%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Simmons College of Kentucky rose 195% between 2021 and 2024 (163 → 481).
-47%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Simmons College of Kentucky fell 47% between 2021 and 2024 (25.8% → 13.7%).
+38%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Simmons College of Kentucky rose 38% between 2021 and 2024 (46.2% → 63.9%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Kentucky
Each tile compares this institution to the Kentucky median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—-1% · 6→8y
Kentucky median $37,114$22,732
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry34.0%
Kentucky median 49.7%—
At program completion381+434% · '11→'24
latest IPEDS51.3%-36% · '11→'24
first-time, full-time98.2%+10% · '20→'24
latest cohort$16,398+255% · '11→'24
out-of-state $16,398SECTION 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 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.
+275%
Simmons College of Kentucky · completion · 150% rose
0.0% → 13.7%
-36%
Simmons College of Kentucky · retention fell
100.0% → 63.9%
+196%
Simmons College of Kentucky · undergrad enrollment rose
90 → 481
+255%
Simmons College of Kentucky · in-state tuition rose
$4,620 → $16,398
+255%
Simmons College of Kentucky · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,620 → $16,398
+828%
Simmons College of Kentucky · pell share rose
0.0% → 41.4%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Simmons College of Kentucky
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 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree at Simmons College of Kentucky(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 Kentucky
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Simmons College of Kentucky graduates earn $X” — not “Simmons College of Kentucky makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Simmons College of Kentucky 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.