-15%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Northwest Technology Center-Alva fell 15% between 2006 and 2009 (41 → 35).
Oklahoma · Public · Predominantly certificates
Northwest Technology Center-Alva
Alva, Oklahoma. 33 undergraduate students. 9 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Northwest Technology Center-Alva
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.
-13%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Northwest Technology Center-Alva fell 12% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 87.5%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Oklahoma
Each tile compares this institution to the Oklahoma median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$32,501-8% · 6→10y
Oklahoma median $38,465$35,157
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%-13% · '97→'09
Oklahoma median 52.9%—
At program completion33-8% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS88.2%-13% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
-13%
Northwest Technology Center-Alva · retention fell
100.0% → 87.5%
-88%
Northwest Technology Center-Alva · pell share fell
83.3% → 9.9%
+77%
Northwest Technology Center-Alva · earnings_median_10yr rose
$18,400 → $32,501
+23%
Northwest Technology Center-Alva · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,100 → $25,865
+131%
Northwest Technology Center-Alva · earnings_median_6yr rose
$15,200 → $35,157
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Northwest Technology Center-Alva
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 Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Northwest Technology Center-Alva(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 Oklahoma
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Northwest Technology Center-Alva graduates earn $X” — not “Northwest Technology Center-Alva makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Northwest Technology Center-Alva 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.