-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Central Maine Community College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.0% → 0.0%).
Maine · Public · Predominantly associate's
Central Maine Community College
Auburn, Maine. 2,828 undergraduate students. 42 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Central Maine Community 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.
+47%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Central Maine Community College rose 47% between 2021 and 2024 (2.0k → 3.0k).
+33%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Central Maine Community College are 33% above 6-year earnings ($32.0k → $42.4k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Maine
Each tile compares this institution to the Maine median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$42,448+33% · 6→10y
Maine median $44,433$31,977
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry27.6%-48% · '99→'09
Maine median 56.4%$6,568+243% · '97→'20
At program completion2,828+363% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS57.2%-30% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,864+51% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,744SECTION 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
2.1%Median federal debt $6,568 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $42,448 (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.
-48%
Central Maine Community College · completion · 150% fell
45.9% → 23.8%
-30%
Central Maine Community College · retention fell
81.0% → 56.8%
+363%
Central Maine Community College · undergrad enrollment rose
637 → 2,952
+51%
Central Maine Community College · in-state tuition rose
$2,745 → $4,140
+36%
Central Maine Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,175 → $7,020
+243%
Central Maine Community College · median debt rose
$3,500 → $12,000
-100%
Central Maine Community College · cohort default rate fell
15.3% → 0.0%
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.$71,277Precision Metal Working.$63,136Criminal Justice and Corrections.$58,787Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies.$58,739Electromechanical Instrumentation and Maintenance Technologies/Technicians.$56,119Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.$41,727Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$40,041Health and Medical Administrative Services.$39,761Business Administration, Management and Operations.$37,779Human Services, General.$37,181Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$35,712Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$35,493
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
12 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
EDUCATION · CIP 13
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 15
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
PRECISION PRODUCTION · CIP 48
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Central Maine Community 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
$103,320
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 16
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $8,699
- HS-only baseline · ME
- $36,200
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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 Maine
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Central Maine Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Central Maine Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Central Maine Community 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.