-29%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 29% at Blackfeet Community College vs the 2018–2022 baseline (240 vs 337).
Montana · Private nonprofit · Predominantly associate's
Blackfeet Community College
Browning, Montana. 240 undergraduate students. 29 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Blackfeet 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.
+5777%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Blackfeet Community College rose 5777% between 2022 and 2024 (1.1% → 62.3%).
+191%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Blackfeet Community College rose 191% between 2021 and 2024 (25.8% → 75.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Montana
Each tile compares this institution to the Montana median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$22,953+2% · 6→10y
Montana median $40,738$22,428
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry7.7%+748% · '98→'24
Montana median 46.1%—
At program completion240-22% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+79% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,610+86% · '00→'24
out-of-state $3,610SECTION 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 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.
+748%
Blackfeet Community College · completion · 150% rose
7.3% → 62.3%
+79%
Blackfeet Community College · retention rose
42.0% → 75.0%
-22%
Blackfeet Community College · undergrad enrollment fell
367 → 286
+86%
Blackfeet Community College · in-state tuition rose
$1,941 → $3,610
+86%
Blackfeet Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,941 → $3,610
-47%
Blackfeet Community College · pell share fell
93.1% → 49.3%
+45%
Blackfeet Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$17,100 → $24,748
+56%
Blackfeet Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$14,100 → $22,428
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Blackfeet 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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Associate's Degree at Blackfeet Community College(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 Montana
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Blackfeet Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Blackfeet Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Blackfeet 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.