-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Henry Ford College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.5% → 0.0%).
Michigan · Public · Predominantly certificates
Henry Ford College
Henry Ford College is a public community college in Dearborn, Michigan, founded in 1938, offering associate degrees, certificates, and select bachelor's programs.
8,695 undergraduate students. 125 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
Earnings, completion, debt, and enrollment anomalies at Henry Ford 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.
+75%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Henry Ford College rose 75% between 2021 and 2024 (9.8% → 17.2%).
+16%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Henry Ford College rose 16% between 2012 and 2015 (47.4% → 55.0%).
-12%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Henry Ford College fell 12% between 2017 and 2020 ($16.3k → $14.2k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
Henry Ford College earnings, debt, and completion vs. the Michigan median
Each tile compares this institution to the Michigan median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$34,795+24% · 6→10y
Michigan median $38,167$28,100
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry10.6%-19% · '99→'24
Michigan median 57.1%$7,300+443% · '97→'20
At program completion8,695+2% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—-23% · '04→'15
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,460+122% · '00→'24
out-of-state $7,040SECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How Henry Ford College 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 at Henry Ford College
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
2.8%Median federal debt $7,300 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $34,795 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Henry Ford College enrollment, completion, and debt over time
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.
-23%
Henry Ford College · retention fell
71.0% → 55.0%
+122%
Henry Ford College · in-state tuition rose
$1,608 → $3,568
+176%
Henry Ford College · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,832 → $7,816
+443%
Henry Ford College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $14,250
-100%
Henry Ford College · cohort default rate fell
16.9% → 0.0%
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Henry Ford College 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$76,157Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications$73,005Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications$66,473Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies$57,229Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions$55,090Legal Support Services$54,175Criminal Justice and Corrections$52,948Computer Programming$52,664Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities$50,072Business Administration, Management and Operations$42,443Business/Commerce, General$42,412Health and Medical Administrative Services$40,806Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods$35,654Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities$35,098Design and Applied Arts$25,623Culinary Arts and Related Services$25,493Culinary Arts and Related Services$21,742
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
17 Henry Ford College programs with earnings, grouped by field
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
EDUCATION · CIP 13
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
MECHANIC & REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 47
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Henry Ford 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
-$1,810
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $2,491
- HS-only baseline · MI
- $36,900
- 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
Institutions similar to Henry Ford College in Michigan
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Henry Ford College graduates earn $X” — not “Henry Ford College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Henry Ford 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.