-26%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Saint Joseph Seminary College are 26% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($38.4k vs $51.9k).
Louisiana · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Saint Joseph Seminary College
St. Benedict, Louisiana. 91 undergraduate students. 3 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Saint Joseph Seminary 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.
+23%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Saint Joseph Seminary College rose 23% between 2021 and 2024 ($22.8k → $28.0k).
+23%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Saint Joseph Seminary College rose 23% between 2021 and 2024 ($22.8k → $28.0k).
-22%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Saint Joseph Seminary College fell 22% between 2021 and 2024 (91.7% → 71.4%).
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.
$38,366+60% · 6→10y
Louisiana median $33,099$24,003
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry40.0%+8% · '97→'24
Louisiana median 52.0%—
At program completion91-32% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS87.5%+7% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—±0% · '01→'06
latest cohort$26,770+168% · '00→'24
out-of-state $26,770SECTION 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.
+291%
Saint Joseph Seminary College · completion · 100% rose
11.1% → 43.5%
-22%
Saint Joseph Seminary College · undergrad enrollment fell
136 → 93
+168%
Saint Joseph Seminary College · in-state tuition rose
$10,450 → $28,025
+168%
Saint Joseph Seminary College · out-of-state tuition rose
$10,450 → $28,025
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Saint Joseph Seminary 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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Philosophy and Religious Studies, General · Bachelor's Degree at Saint Joseph Seminary College(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 Louisiana
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Saint Joseph Seminary College graduates earn $X” — not “Saint Joseph Seminary College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Saint Joseph Seminary 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.