-11%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Pamlico Community College are 11% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($30.0k vs $33.8k).
North Carolina · Public · Predominantly certificates
Pamlico Community College
Grantsboro, North Carolina. 240 undergraduate students. 29 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Pamlico 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.
+57%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Pamlico Community College rose 57% between 2006 and 2009 (50.0% → 78.7%).
-17%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Pamlico Community College fell 17% between 2021 and 2024 (198 → 165).
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.
$30,005+3% · 6→10y
North Carolina median $36,030$29,240
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry47.1%+119% · '97→'09
North Carolina median 46.1%—
At program completion240+54% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS71.4%+14% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$1,867+112% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,475SECTION 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.
+119%
Pamlico Community College · completion · 150% rose
36.0% → 78.7%
+14%
Pamlico Community College · retention rose
50.0% → 57.1%
+29%
Pamlico Community College · undergrad enrollment rose
107 → 165
+99%
Pamlico Community College · in-state tuition rose
$880 → $1,867
-24%
Pamlico Community College · pell share fell
51.7% → 39.2%
+55%
Pamlico Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$19,300 → $30,005
+46%
Pamlico Community College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$20,000 → $29,141
+63%
Pamlico Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$17,900 → $29,240
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Pamlico 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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Pamlico Community College(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 North Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Pamlico Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Pamlico Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Pamlico 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.