-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Inver Hills Community College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.6% → 0.0%).
Minnesota · Public · Predominantly associate's
Inver Hills Community College
Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. 2,203 undergraduate students. 50 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Inver Hills 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.
+28%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Inver Hills Community College rose 28% between 2006 and 2009 (12.2% → 15.7%).
+19%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Inver Hills Community College rose 19% between 2021 and 2024 (47.2% → 56.2%).
+9%
Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Inver Hills Community College are 9% above the public associate's-predominant peer median ($49.9k vs $45.6k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Minnesota
Each tile compares this institution to the Minnesota median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$49,898+14% · 6→10y
Minnesota median $48,321$43,586
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry19.1%+110% · '99→'09
Minnesota median 54.7%$9,315+424% · '97→'20
At program completion2,203-45% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS57.7%+12% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$6,007+144% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,007SECTION 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
2.5%Median federal debt $9,315 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $49,898 (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.
+110%
Inver Hills Community College · completion · 150% rose
7.5% → 15.7%
+12%
Inver Hills Community College · retention rose
50.0% → 56.2%
-45%
Inver Hills Community College · undergrad enrollment fell
4,001 → 2,193
+144%
Inver Hills Community College · in-state tuition rose
$2,520 → $6,146
+30%
Inver Hills Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,710 → $6,146
+424%
Inver Hills Community College · median debt rose
$2,667 → $13,965
-100%
Inver Hills Community College · cohort default rate fell
12.2% → 0.0%
+25%
Inver Hills Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$40,000 → $49,898
+26%
Inver Hills Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$38,600 → $48,538
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.$77,496Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.$69,116Legal Support Services.$56,705Criminal Justice and Corrections.$56,206Business/Commerce, General.$56,125Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$49,562Legal Support Services.$48,783Accounting and Related Services.$47,777Human Services, General.$43,541Education, General.$35,070
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
10 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
EDUCATION · CIP 13
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Inver Hills 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
$235,126
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 9
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $10,713
- HS-only baseline · MN
- $39,400
- 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 Minnesota
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Inver Hills Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Inver Hills Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Inver Hills 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.