-50%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Blue Hills Regional Technical School fell 50% between 2006 and 2009 (85.0% → 42.9%).
Massachusetts · Public · Predominantly certificates
Blue Hills Regional Technical School
Canton, Massachusetts. 38 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Blue Hills 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.
+43%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Blue Hills Regional Technical School rose 43% between 2006 and 2009 ($6.6k → $9.5k).
-11%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Blue Hills Regional Technical School fell 11% between 2006 and 2009 (80.0% → 71.0%).
-11%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Blue Hills Regional Technical School fell 11% between 2006 and 2009 (63 → 56).
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-entry100.0%-7% · '98→'09
Massachusetts median 66.5%$9,301+82% · '97→'09
At program completion38-7% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS33.3%-49% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time100.0%-60% · '01→'09
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.
-49%
Blue Hills Regional Technical School · retention fell
84.0% → 42.9%
+82%
Blue Hills Regional Technical School · median debt rose
$5,233 → $9,500
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Blue Hills 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 Blue Hills 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
“Blue Hills Regional Technical School graduates earn $X” — not “Blue Hills Regional Technical School makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Blue Hills 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.