-15%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Little Big Horn College are 15% below 6-year earnings ($25.0k → $21.2k).
Montana · Public · Predominantly associate's
Little Big Horn College
Crow Agency, Montana. 339 undergraduate students. 28 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Little Big Horn 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.
+92%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Little Big Horn College rose 91% between 2006 and 2009 (4.8% → 9.2%).
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.
$21,152-15% · 6→10y
Montana median $40,738$25,016
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry10.8%+85% · '97→'09
Montana median 46.1%—
At program completion339+24% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS49.2%+945% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$3,200+43% · '00→'24
out-of-state $3,200SECTION 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.
+85%
Little Big Horn College · completion · 150% rose
5.0% → 9.2%
+945%
Little Big Horn College · retention rose
5.0% → 52.3%
+24%
Little Big Horn College · undergrad enrollment rose
204 → 253
+43%
Little Big Horn College · in-state tuition rose
$2,240 → $3,200
+43%
Little Big Horn College · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,240 → $3,200
-34%
Little Big Horn College · pell share fell
55.5% → 36.7%
+33%
Little Big Horn College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$15,900 → $21,152
+46%
Little Big Horn College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$16,500 → $24,035
+74%
Little Big Horn College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$13,900 → $25,016
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
1 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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Little Big Horn 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
-$259,885
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $8,716
- HS-only baseline · MT
- $35,800
- 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 Montana
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Little Big Horn College graduates earn $X” — not “Little Big Horn College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Little Big Horn 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.