-39%
Sitting Bull College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Sitting Bull College are 39% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($28.5k vs $46.8k).
State hub · North Dakota · vintage 2025-05
North Dakota Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in North Dakota — 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 Dakota
Top signals rolled up across North Dakotainstitutions — 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.
-9%
Mayville State University · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Mayville State University are 9% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($47.8k vs $52.7k).
-100%
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College · First-year retention
First-year retention at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College fell 100% between 2014 and 2017 (100.0% → 0.0%).
-100%
Turtle Mountain Community College · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Turtle Mountain Community College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (9.1% → 0.0%).
-57%
Cankdeska Cikana Community College · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Cankdeska Cikana Community College fell 57% between 2006 and 2009 (26.3% → 11.4%).
+38%
Lake Region State College · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Lake Region State College rose 38% between 2017 and 2020 ($7.5k → $10.3k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across North Dakota Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
23
Title-IV main campuses1,189
with published outcomes$47,828
across institutions48.1%
median across institutions36,330
latest historical vintage$6,128
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How North Dakota 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.
+16%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
40.3% → 46.6%
+154%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,416 → $6,128
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
7 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 7 of 23 Title-IV institutions · Public 14 · Private 5 · For-profit 4
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 17 North Dakota cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
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.