-39%
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).
North Dakota · Public · Predominantly associate's
Sitting Bull College
Fort Yates, North Dakota. 226 undergraduate students. 34 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Sitting Bull 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.
+200%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Sitting Bull College rose 200% between 2008 and 2011 (25.0% → 75.0%).
+103%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Sitting Bull College rose 103% between 2021 and 2024 (10.6% → 21.6%).
+19%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Sitting Bull College rose 19% between 2021 and 2024 (216 → 257).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. North Dakota
Each tile compares this institution to the North Dakota median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$28,488+21% · 6→10y
North Dakota median $47,828$23,563
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry23.9%+268% · '99→'24
North Dakota median 48.1%—
At program completion226+15% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,010+58% · '00→'24
out-of-state $4,010SECTION 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.
+268%
Sitting Bull College · completion · 150% rose
5.9% → 21.6%
+1500%
Sitting Bull College · retention rose
0.0% → 75.0%
+58%
Sitting Bull College · in-state tuition rose
$2,540 → $4,010
+58%
Sitting Bull College · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,540 → $4,010
+64%
Sitting Bull College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$17,400 → $28,488
+105%
Sitting Bull College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$13,300 → $29,073
+52%
Sitting Bull College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$15,500 → $23,563
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Sitting Bull 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 Human Services, General · Associate's Degree at Sitting Bull 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 Dakota
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Sitting Bull College graduates earn $X” — not “Sitting Bull College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Sitting Bull 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.