-39%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Rabbinical College of America are 39% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.0k vs $57.7k).
New Jersey · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Rabbinical College of America
Morristown, New Jersey. 197 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Rabbinical College of America
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.
+82%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Rabbinical College of America rose 82% between 2021 and 2024 (12.2% → 22.2%).
-16%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Rabbinical College of America fell 16% between 2021 and 2024 (216 → 181).
-11%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Rabbinical College of America fell 11% between 2021 and 2024 ($12.0k → $10.7k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New Jersey
Each tile compares this institution to the New Jersey median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$34,990+28% · 6→10y
New Jersey median $46,742$27,418
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry18.3%-33% · '99→'24
New Jersey median 62.0%—
At program completion197-4% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS88.1%+40% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time87.1%±0% · '02→'09
latest cohort$13,000+52% · '01→'24
out-of-state $13,000SECTION 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 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.
-33%
Rabbinical College of America · completion · 150% fell
33.3% → 22.2%
-100%
Rabbinical College of America · completion · 100% fell
33.3% → 0.0%
+40%
Rabbinical College of America · retention rose
54.0% → 75.5%
+52%
Rabbinical College of America · in-state tuition rose
$7,000 → $10,650
+52%
Rabbinical College of America · out-of-state tuition rose
$7,000 → $10,650
+36%
Rabbinical College of America · earnings_median_10yr rose
$25,800 → $34,990
+91%
Rabbinical College of America · earnings_median_6yr rose
$13,800 → $27,418
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Rabbinical College of America
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 Religion/Religious Studies · Bachelor's Degree at Rabbinical College of America(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 New Jersey
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Rabbinical College of America graduates earn $X” — not “Rabbinical College of America makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Rabbinical College of America 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.