-17%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program are 17% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($39.6k vs $47.9k).
New York · Public · Predominantly certificates
Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program
Olean, New York. 23 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program
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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (10.2% → 0.0%).
+55%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program rose 55% between 1999 and 2002 (64.7% → 100.0%).
-28%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program fell 28% between 2015 and 2018 ($13.8k → $10.0k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New York
Each tile compares this institution to the New York median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$39,581+25% · 6→10y
New York median $48,917$31,660
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—+18% · '97→'02
New York median 64.2%$4,386+101% · '97→'18
At program completion23-61% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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
1.5%Median federal debt $4,386 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $39,581 (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.
-25%
Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · undergrad enrollment fell
80 → 31
+101%
Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · median debt rose
$4,965 → $9,955
-100%
Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · cohort default rate fell
35.8% → 0.0%
+27%
Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · earnings_median_6yr rose
$25,000 → $31,660
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program
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 Bioethics/Medical Ethics · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program(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 York
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program graduates earn $X” — not “Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES-Practical Nursing Program 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.