+14%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Curtis Institute of Music rose 14% between 2006 and 2009 ($2.0k → $2.3k).
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 106 undergraduate students. 4 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Curtis Institute of Music
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.
+206%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Curtis Institute of Music rose 206% between 2006 and 2009 (30.0% → 91.7%).
-100%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Curtis Institute of Music fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 ($5.0k → $0).
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Curtis Institute of Music fell 100% between 2020 and 2023 (7.8% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Pennsylvania
Each tile compares this institution to the Pennsylvania median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—+29% · 6→8y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$31,201
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry94.7%-8% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%—-2% · '01→'04
At program completion106-16% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS97.0%±0% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time7.0%-31% · '02→'24
latest cohort$6,000-100% · '00→'24
out-of-state $6,000SECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-33%
Curtis Institute of Music · completion · 100% fell
100.0% → 66.7%
-90%
Curtis Institute of Music · in-state tuition fell
$895 → $0
+140%
Curtis Institute of Music · out-of-state tuition rose
$895 → $2,290
-88%
Curtis Institute of Music · pell share fell
8.2% → 0.9%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Curtis Institute of Music
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 Music · Bachelor's Degree at Curtis Institute of Music(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 Pennsylvania
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Curtis Institute of Music graduates earn $X” — not “Curtis Institute of Music makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Curtis Institute of Music 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.