-23%
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).
North Carolina · Public · Predominantly certificates
Martin Community College
Williamston, North Carolina. 302 undergraduate students. 37 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Martin Community 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.
-35%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Martin Community College fell 35% between 2006 and 2009 (16.0% → 10.4%).
+33%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Martin Community College rose 33% between 2021 and 2024 ($6.5k → $8.7k).
+32%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Martin Community College rose 32% between 2021 and 2024 ($1.9k → $2.5k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. North Carolina
Each tile compares this institution to the North Carolina median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$26,016-3% · 6→10y
North Carolina median $36,030$26,883
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry37.5%-49% · '97→'09
North Carolina median 46.1%—+10% · '97→'09
At program completion302-26% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS58.1%+65% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$2,523+187% · '00→'24
out-of-state $8,673SECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-49%
Martin Community College · completion · 150% fell
20.5% → 10.4%
+65%
Martin Community College · retention rose
46.0% → 76.1%
-26%
Martin Community College · undergrad enrollment fell
421 → 313
+164%
Martin Community College · in-state tuition rose
$880 → $2,523
+60%
Martin Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,432 → $8,667
-100%
Martin Community College · cohort default rate fell
14.8% → 0.0%
+24%
Martin Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$22,500 → $27,871
+38%
Martin Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$19,500 → $26,883
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.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Martin Community 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
$36,809
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 26
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $2,483
- HS-only baseline · NC
- $35,600
- Years to complete
- 2
- 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 North Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Martin Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Martin Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Martin Community 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.