-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Portland Actors Conservatory fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (13.7% → 0.0%).
Oregon · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Portland Actors Conservatory
Portland, Oregon. 13 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Portland Actors Conservatory
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.
+50%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Portland Actors Conservatory rose 50% between 2020 and 2023 (66.7% → 100.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Oregon
Each tile compares this institution to the Oregon median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Oregon median $40,968—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%
Oregon median 57.5%—
At program completion13-59% · '10→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%+30% · '10→'23
first-time, full-time66.7%-6% · '10→'24
latest cohort$12,115+38% · '10→'24
out-of-state $12,115SECTION 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.
+30%
Portland Actors Conservatory · retention rose
76.9% → 100.0%
+38%
Portland Actors Conservatory · in-state tuition rose
$8,775 → $12,115
+38%
Portland Actors Conservatory · out-of-state tuition rose
$8,775 → $12,115
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Portland Actors Conservatory
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 Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Portland Actors Conservatory(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 Oregon
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Portland Actors Conservatory graduates earn $X” — not “Portland Actors Conservatory makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Portland Actors Conservatory 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.