-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Missouri State University-West Plains fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.8% → 0.0%).
Missouri · Public · Predominantly associate's
Missouri State University-West Plains
West Plains, Missouri. 860 undergraduate students. 37 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Missouri State University-West Plains
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.
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.
$36,922+19% · 6→10y
Missouri median $40,979$30,926
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry35.1%+4% · '97→'09
Missouri median 59.3%$5,750+281% · '97→'20
At program completion860+10% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS54.8%+11% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$5,544+42% · '00→'09
out-of-state $7,630SECTION 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
2.1%Median federal debt $5,750 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $36,922 (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.
+11%
Missouri State University-West Plains · retention rose
56.0% → 61.9%
+42%
Missouri State University-West Plains · in-state tuition rose
$2,320 → $3,304
+80%
Missouri State University-West Plains · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,510 → $8,106
+281%
Missouri State University-West Plains · median debt rose
$2,625 → $10,000
-100%
Missouri State University-West Plains · cohort default rate fell
20.8% → 0.0%
+123%
Missouri State University-West Plains · pell share rose
13.2% → 29.3%
+32%
Missouri State University-West Plains · earnings_median_10yr rose
$27,900 → $36,922
+38%
Missouri State University-West Plains · earnings_median_8yr rose
$24,600 → $33,978
+34%
Missouri State University-West Plains · earnings_median_6yr rose
$23,000 → $30,926
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.
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Missouri State University-West Plains
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
-$85,695
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $9,751
- HS-only baseline · MO
- $35,100
- 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 Missouri
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Missouri State University-West Plains graduates earn $X” — not “Missouri State University-West Plains makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Missouri State University-West Plains 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.