+2%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Massachusetts Maritime Academy are 2% above 6-year earnings ($80.4k → $82.4k).
Massachusetts · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. 1,270 undergraduate students. 14 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Massachusetts Maritime Academy
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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Massachusetts Maritime Academy fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.0% → 0.0%).
+44%
Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Massachusetts Maritime Academy are 44% above the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($82.4k vs $57.4k).
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.
$82,392+2% · 6→10y
Massachusetts median $56,022$80,424
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry79.1%+35% · '97→'24
Massachusetts median 66.5%$20,500+93% · '97→'20
At program completion1,270+91% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS78.9%+15% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time94.5%+35% · '01→'24
latest cohort$10,816+297% · '00→'24
out-of-state $23,910SECTION 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
3.3%Median federal debt $20,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $82,392 (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.
+35%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · completion · 150% rose
54.9% → 74.1%
+71%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · completion · 100% rose
36.9% → 63.2%
+15%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · retention rose
75.0% → 86.5%
+91%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · undergrad enrollment rose
730 → 1,395
+297%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · in-state tuition rose
$2,873 → $11,420
+117%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · out-of-state tuition rose
$10,953 → $23,722
+93%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · median debt rose
$12,936 → $25,000
-100%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · cohort default rate fell
3.7% → 0.0%
+48%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · earnings_median_8yr rose
$67,500 → $99,847
+39%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy · earnings_median_6yr rose
$57,700 → $80,424
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.
Engineering-Related Fields.$132,596Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.$117,114Marine Transportation.$110,804Engineering, Other.$103,180Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other.$89,186International Business.$85,322Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other.$81,977Natural Resources Conservation and Research.$74,074
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
8 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 15
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
TRANSPORTATION & MATERIALS MOVING · CIP 49
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
NATURAL RESOURCES & CONSERVATION · CIP 03
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Massachusetts Maritime Academy
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
$1,531,909
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 5
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $13,919
- HS-only baseline · MA
- $42,600
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 14
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
“Massachusetts Maritime Academy graduates earn $X” — not “Massachusetts Maritime Academy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Massachusetts Maritime Academy 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.