+21%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Watts College of Nursing rose 20% between 2002 and 2005 ($5.5k → $6.6k).
North Carolina · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Watts College of Nursing
Durham, North Carolina. 134 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Watts College of Nursing
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.
-14%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Watts College of Nursing fell 14% between 2021 and 2024 (144 → 124).
+12%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Watts College of Nursing rose 12% between 2004 and 2007 ($8.5k → $9.5k).
+12%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Watts College of Nursing rose 12% between 2004 and 2007 ($8.5k → $9.5k).
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.
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North Carolina median $36,030—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—-2% · '98→'07
North Carolina median 46.1%—±0% · '97→'05
At program completion134+14% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+30% · '04→'07
first-time, full-time—±0% · '01→'08
latest cohort—+220% · '01→'07
annualSECTION 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.
+30%
Watts College of Nursing · retention rose
75.0% → 97.2%
+220%
Watts College of Nursing · in-state tuition rose
$2,972 → $9,525
+220%
Watts College of Nursing · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,972 → $9,525
+92%
Watts College of Nursing · pell share rose
17.1% → 32.8%
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 Watts College of Nursing
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 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Watts College of Nursing(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
“Watts College of Nursing graduates earn $X” — not “Watts College of Nursing makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Watts College of Nursing 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.