-21%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing fell 21% between 2021 and 2024 (566 → 446).
Missouri · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing
Saint Louis, Missouri. 426 undergraduate students. 5 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing
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.
+339%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing rose 339% between 2005 and 2008 (19.0% → 83.3%).
+81%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing are 81% above the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($84.4k vs $46.7k).
-12%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing fell 12% between 2017 and 2020 ($19.1k → $16.8k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Missouri
Each tile compares this institution to the Missouri median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$84,393+18% · 6→10y
Missouri median $40,979$71,761
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—+50% · '99→'11
Missouri median 59.3%$15,000+139% · '97→'20
At program completion426+34% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+34% · '04→'08
first-time, full-time—+45% · '01→'07
latest cohort—+6% · '00→'06
annualSECTION 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
2.4%Median federal debt $15,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $84,393 (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.
+50%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · completion · 150% rose
66.7% → 100.0%
+1100%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · completion · 100% rose
8.3% → 100.0%
+34%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · retention rose
62.0% → 83.3%
+34%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · undergrad enrollment rose
333 → 446
+139%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · median debt rose
$7,000 → $16,750
-100%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · cohort default rate fell
3.2% → 0.0%
-22%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · pell share fell
31.3% → 24.4%
+40%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · earnings_median_10yr rose
$60,200 → $84,393
+36%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · earnings_median_8yr rose
$55,500 → $75,389
+30%
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing · earnings_median_6yr rose
$55,200 → $71,761
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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing
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 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Bachelor's Degree at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing(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 Missouri
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing graduates earn $X” — not “Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing 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.