-34%
Heritage Bible College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Heritage Bible College are 34% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($30.7k vs $46.2k).
State hub · North Carolina · vintage 2025-05
North Carolina Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in North Carolina — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across North Carolina
Top signals rolled up across North Carolinainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-30%
Livingstone College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Livingstone College are 29% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($32.6k vs $46.2k).
-29%
Carolina University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Carolina University are 29% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($32.9k vs $46.2k).
-27%
Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary are 27% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.7k vs $46.2k).
-23%
Martin Community College · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Martin Community College are 23% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($26.0k vs $33.8k).
-15%
Robeson Community College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Robeson Community College are 15% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($29.0k vs $34.2k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across North Carolina Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
142
Title-IV main campuses6,999
with published outcomes$36,030
across institutions46.1%
median across institutions414,215
latest historical vintage$4,492
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How North Carolina has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+36%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
35.0% → 47.5%
+64%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
252,667 → 414,215
+357%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$919 → $4,492
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
78 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 78 of 142 Title-IV institutions · Public 75 · Private 48 · For-profit 19
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 90 North Carolina cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Ahoskie
- Albemarle
- Asheboro
- Asheville
- Banner Elk
- Belmont
- Boiling Springs
- Bolivia
- Boone
- Brevard
- Buies Creek
- Cary
- Chapel Hill
- Charlotte
- Clinton
- Clyde
- Concord
- Cullowhee
- Dallas
- Davidson
- Dobson
- Dublin
- Dunn
- Durham
- Elizabeth City
- Elon
- Fayetteville
- Flat Rock
- Gastonia
- Goldsboro
- Graham
- Grantsboro
- Greensboro
- Greenville
- Hamlet
- Henderson
- Hickory
- High Point
- Hudson
- Jacksonville
- Jamestown
- Kenansville
- Kinston
- Louisburg
- Lumberton
- Marion
- Mars Hill
- Mebane
- Misenheimer
- Montreat
- Mooresville
- Morehead City
- Morganton
- Mount Olive
- Murfreesboro
- Murphy
- New Bern
- Pembroke
- Pinehurst
- Polkton
- Raleigh
- Rocky Mount
- Roxboro
- Salisbury
- Sanford
- Shelby
- Smithfield
- Spindale
- Spruce Pine
- Statesville
- Sugar Grove
- Swannanoa
- Sylva
- Tarboro
- Thomasville
- Troy
- Wake Forest
- Washington
- Weldon
- Wendell
- Wentworth
- Whiteville
- Wilkesboro
- Williamston
- Wilmington
- Wilson
- Wingate
- Winston Salem
- Winston-Salem
- Winterville
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.