-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Fortis College-Baton Rouge fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.5% → 0.0%).
Louisiana · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Fortis College-Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 461 undergraduate students. 16 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Fortis College-Baton Rouge
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.
+48%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Fortis College-Baton Rouge are 48% above the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($32.9k vs $22.3k).
+29%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Fortis College-Baton Rouge rose 29% between 2021 and 2024 (49.1% → 63.4%).
+25%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Fortis College-Baton Rouge rose 25% between 2021 and 2024 (387 → 482).
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.
$32,886-4% · 6→10y
Louisiana median $33,099$34,430
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry45.0%+26% · '04→'09
Louisiana median 52.0%$9,500+370% · '02→'20
At program completion461+3113% · '01→'24
latest IPEDS57.4%+27% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—-28% · '01→'07
latest cohort$16,167+22% · '11→'24
out-of-state $16,167SECTION 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
3.8%Median federal debt $9,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $32,886 (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.
+26%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · completion · 150% rose
42.9% → 53.9%
+27%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · retention rose
50.0% → 63.4%
+234%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · undergrad enrollment rose
15 → 482
+370%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · median debt rose
$2,625 → $12,346
-100%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · cohort default rate fell
17.9% → 0.0%
+40%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · earnings_median_10yr rose
$23,500 → $32,886
+36%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · earnings_median_8yr rose
$22,700 → $30,952
+56%
Fortis College-Baton Rouge · earnings_median_6yr rose
$22,100 → $34,430
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.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$78,102Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$51,539Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$49,382Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$48,208Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology/Technician (HAC, HACR, HVAC, HVACR).$42,934Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$39,334Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$38,398Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$34,425Health and Medical Administrative Services.$32,926Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$32,693Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$31,185
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
11 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$31,185Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$49,382Health and Medical Administrative Services.$32,926Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$39,334Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$34,425Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$48,208Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.$38,398Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$32,693Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$78,102Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$51,539
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Fortis College-Baton Rouge
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
-$19,018
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $26,627
- HS-only baseline · LA
- $32,800
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 51
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
“Fortis College-Baton Rouge graduates earn $X” — not “Fortis College-Baton Rouge makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Fortis College-Baton Rouge 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.