-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Assabet Valley Regional Technical School fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.1% → 0.0%).
Massachusetts · Public · Predominantly certificates
Assabet Valley Regional Technical School
Marlborough, Massachusetts. 48 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Assabet Valley Regional Technical School
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.
+19%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Assabet Valley Regional Technical School rose 19% between 1997 and 1999 (70.1% → 83.3%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Massachusetts
Each tile compares this institution to the Massachusetts median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Massachusetts median $56,022—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry50.0%+19% · '97→'99
Massachusetts median 66.5%$9,500+262% · '97→'20
At program completion48-48% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS77.8%
first-time, full-time33.3%+41% · '10→'24
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
-22%
Assabet Valley Regional Technical School · undergrad enrollment fell
90 → 47
+262%
Assabet Valley Regional Technical School · median debt rose
$2,625 → $9,500
-100%
Assabet Valley Regional Technical School · cohort default rate fell
17.6% → 0.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Assabet Valley Regional Technical School
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 Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Assabet Valley Regional Technical School(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 Massachusetts
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Assabet Valley Regional Technical School graduates earn $X” — not “Assabet Valley Regional Technical School makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Assabet Valley Regional Technical School 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.