-93%
Salish Kootenai College · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Salish Kootenai College fell 93% between 2021 and 2024 (26.7% → 1.8%).
State hub · Montana · vintage 2025-05
Montana Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Montana — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Montana
Top signals rolled up across Montanainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
+69%
Academy of Cosmetology Inc · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Academy of Cosmetology Inc rose 69% between 2006 and 2009 ($3.9k → $6.7k).
+62%
Butte Academy of Beauty Culture · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Butte Academy of Beauty Culture rose 62% between 2006 and 2009 ($4.6k → $7.5k).
-60%
Fort Peck Community College · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Fort Peck Community College fell 60% between 2006 and 2009 (17.6% → 7.1%).
-55%
Salish Kootenai College · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Salish Kootenai College fell 55% between 2021 and 2024 (61.8% → 27.6%).
+55%
Montana Bible College · In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Montana Bible College rose 55% between 2021 and 2024 ($9.4k → $14.6k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Montana Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
27
Title-IV main campuses1,135
with published outcomes$40,738
across institutions46.1%
median across institutions35,897
latest historical vintage$5,414
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Montana has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+27%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
37.7% → 48.0%
+16%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
31,066 → 35,897
+112%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,551 → $5,414
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
7 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 7 of 27 Title-IV institutions · Public 17 · Private 5 · For-profit 5
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.