-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Louisiana Tech University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.8% → 0.0%).
Louisiana · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
Louisiana Tech
Ruston, Louisiana. 7,819 undergraduate students. 111 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Louisiana Tech
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.
+13%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Louisiana Tech University rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 (39.2% → 44.5%).
+12%
Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Louisiana Tech University are 12% above the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($52.3k vs $46.8k).
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.
$52,279+16% · 6→10y
Louisiana median $33,099$44,903
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry57.6%+83% · '97→'24
Louisiana median 52.0%$15,000+302% · '97→'20
At program completion7,819+11% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS84.0%+17% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time72.6%-7% · '01→'24
latest cohort$10,125+249% · '00→'24
out-of-state $16,866SECTION 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 $15,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $52,279 (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.
+83%
Louisiana Tech · completion · 150% rose
34.9% → 63.8%
+160%
Louisiana Tech · completion · 100% rose
17.1% → 44.5%
+17%
Louisiana Tech · retention rose
70.0% → 82.2%
+249%
Louisiana Tech · in-state tuition rose
$2,897 → $10,125
+94%
Louisiana Tech · out-of-state tuition rose
$8,678 → $16,866
+302%
Louisiana Tech · median debt rose
$5,500 → $22,135
-100%
Louisiana Tech · cohort default rate fell
7.9% → 0.0%
+25%
Louisiana Tech · earnings_median_10yr rose
$41,700 → $52,279
+30%
Louisiana Tech · earnings_median_8yr rose
$37,500 → $48,864
+34%
Louisiana Tech · earnings_median_6yr rose
$33,400 → $44,903
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.
Business Administration, Management and Operations.$117,462Mechanical Engineering.$86,794Air Transportation.$86,441Finance and Financial Management Services.$77,825Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$72,292Management Information Systems and Services.$68,420Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.$64,049Accounting and Related Services.$63,449Business Administration, Management and Operations.$52,803Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.$52,716Health and Physical Education/Fitness.$51,059Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$48,803Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$48,503Psychology, General.$47,632Biology, General.$47,164Student Counseling and Personnel Services.$46,421Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$43,185Sociology.$40,978Design and Applied Arts.$40,793
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
19 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
EDUCATION · CIP 13
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
PARKS, RECREATION & FITNESS · CIP 31
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
TRANSPORTATION & MATERIALS MOVING · CIP 49
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Louisiana Tech
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
$225,028
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 12
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $11,846
- HS-only baseline · LA
- $32,800
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 26
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
“Louisiana Tech graduates earn $X” — not “Louisiana Tech makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Louisiana Tech 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.