-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Creighton University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (0.4% → 0.0%).
Nebraska · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska. 4,231 undergraduate students. 142 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Creighton University
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.
+36%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Creighton University are 36% above the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($73.9k vs $54.3k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Nebraska
Each tile compares this institution to the Nebraska median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$73,911+17% · 6→10y
Nebraska median $47,592$63,090
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry80.5%+16% · '97→'24
Nebraska median 55.9%$21,500+127% · '97→'20
At program completion4,231+14% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS92.2%+7% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time72.3%-10% · '01→'24
latest cohort$47,000+241% · '00→'24
out-of-state $47,000SECTION 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
3.9%Median federal debt $21,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $73,911 (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.
+29%
Creighton University · completion · 100% rose
57.3% → 73.9%
+241%
Creighton University · in-state tuition rose
$14,312 → $48,856
+241%
Creighton University · out-of-state tuition rose
$14,312 → $48,856
+127%
Creighton University · median debt rose
$11,001 → $25,000
-100%
Creighton University · cohort default rate fell
2.3% → 0.0%
-32%
Creighton University · pell share fell
17.0% → 11.5%
+36%
Creighton University · earnings_median_10yr rose
$54,500 → $73,911
+38%
Creighton University · earnings_median_8yr rose
$50,200 → $69,364
+50%
Creighton University · earnings_median_6yr rose
$42,100 → $63,090
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.
Medicine.$180,260Dentistry.$152,982Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$142,708Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.$137,948Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$135,597Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$133,717Finance and Financial Management Services.$119,932Business/Commerce, General.$114,843Educational Administration and Supervision.$98,685Economics.$96,817Computer and Information Sciences, General.$96,486Accounting and Related Services.$94,656Finance and Financial Management Services.$93,767Dispute Resolution.$84,455Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$81,280Law.$80,958Business Administration, Management and Operations.$79,487Marketing.$78,423Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$76,677Health and Physical Education/Fitness.$76,365Public Health.$71,246Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.$68,627Biology, General.$66,620Chemistry.$65,377
Showing top 24 of 28 ranked programs.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
28 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
EDUCATION · CIP 13
FOREIGN LANGUAGES · CIP 16
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
PARKS, RECREATION & FITNESS · CIP 31
PHYSICAL SCIENCES · CIP 40
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$81,280Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$76,677Medicine.$180,260Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.$142,708Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$133,717Dentistry.$152,982Health and Medical Administrative Services.$61,950Public Health.$71,246Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.$137,948Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$135,597
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM · CIP 09
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Creighton University
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
$724,043
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 8
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $25,659
- HS-only baseline · NE
- $36,900
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 51
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 Nebraska
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Creighton University graduates earn $X” — not “Creighton University makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Creighton University 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.