+80%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Avery James College rose 80% between 2017 and 2020 ($5.3k → $9.6k).
Louisiana · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Avery James College
Lake Charles, Louisiana. 74 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Avery James College
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 Avery James College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.8% → 0.0%).
-29%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Avery James College fell 29% between 2006 and 2009 (64.2% → 45.5%).
-10pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 10 pp at Avery James College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (50.0% vs 59.9%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Louisiana
Each tile compares this institution to the Louisiana median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—-26% · 6→8y
Louisiana median $33,099$19,236
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry50.0%+32% · '97→'09
Louisiana median 52.0%$5,229+80% · '17→'20
At program completion74+95% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS57.1%-51% · '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 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.
+32%
Avery James College · completion · 150% rose
34.4% → 45.5%
-51%
Avery James College · retention fell
84.0% → 40.9%
+80%
Avery James College · median debt rose
$5,323 → $9,573
+58%
Avery James College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$10,500 → $19,236
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Avery James College
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
-$219,970
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $16,575
- HS-only baseline · LA
- $32,800
- 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 Louisiana
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Avery James College graduates earn $X” — not “Avery James College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Avery James College 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.