-39%
Cleveland Institute of Music · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Cleveland Institute of Music are 39% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($32.6k vs $53.3k).
State hub · Ohio · vintage 2025-05
Ohio Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Ohio — 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 Ohio
Top signals rolled up across Ohioinstitutions — 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.
-36%
Tri-County Adult Career Center · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Tri-County Adult Career Center are 36% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($26.1k vs $40.5k).
-36%
Art Academy of Cincinnati · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Art Academy of Cincinnati are 36% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($34.4k vs $53.3k).
-34%
Central State University · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Central State University are 34% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.3k vs $50.1k).
-33%
Tiffin University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Tiffin University are 33% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.9k vs $53.3k).
-30%
Allegheny Wesleyan College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Allegheny Wesleyan College are 30% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($37.5k vs $53.3k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Ohio Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
218
Title-IV main campuses8,627
with published outcomes$41,039
across institutions62.5%
median across institutions389,393
latest historical vintage$17,499
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Ohio 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.
+14%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
58.3% → 66.7%
+124%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$7,804 → $17,499
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
61 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 61 of 218 Title-IV institutions · Public 83 · Private 73 · For-profit 62
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.
BY CITY
All 117 Ohio cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Ada
- Akron
- Alliance
- Archbold
- Ashland
- Athens
- Berea
- Bethel
- Bluffton
- Boardman
- Bowling Green
- Brecksville
- Bridgeport
- Canal Winchester
- CANAL WINCHESTER
- Canfield
- Canton
- Cedarville
- Centerville
- Chesapeake
- Chillicothe
- Cincinnati
- Circleville
- Cleveland
- Cleveland Heights
- Columbus
- Concord Twp
- Cuyahoga Falls
- Dayton
- Defiance
- Delaware
- East Liverpool
- Eastlake
- Elyria
- Englewood
- Euclid
- Fairfield
- Findlay
- Fremont
- Gambier
- Granville
- Groveport
- Heath
- Hillsboro
- Hiram
- Huber Heights
- Independence
- Irwin
- Jefferson
- Kent
- Kettering
- Kirtland
- Lakewood
- Lebanon
- Lima
- Lisbon
- Lorain
- Lucasville
- Mansfield
- Marietta
- Marion
- Maumee
- Mayfield Hts
- Medina
- Mentor
- Miamisburg
- Middleburg Heights
- Milan
- Monroe
- Mount Vernon
- Nelsonville
- New Concord
- New Philadelphia
- Newark
- Niles
- North Canton
- Norwalk
- Oberlin
- Ontario
- Oxford
- Painesville
- Pepper Pike
- Perrysburg
- Piketon
- Piqua
- Portsmouth
- Rio Grande
- Rootstown
- Salem
- Sandusky
- Sheffield Village
- Shelby
- Smithville
- South Point
- Springfield
- St Clairsville
- Steubenville
- Sylvania
- Tiffin
- Toledo
- Troy
- Twinsburg
- Uniontown
- University Heights
- Valley View
- Van Wert
- West Chester
- Westerville
- Wickliffe
- Wilberforce
- Wilmington
- Wooster
- Wright-Patterson AFB
- Xenia
- Yellow Springs
- Youngstown
- Zanesville
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.