+15%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Grove City College rose 15% between 2006 and 2009 ($11.0k → $12.6k).
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Grove City College
Grove City, Pennsylvania. 2,221 undergraduate students. 38 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Grove City 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.
-75%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Grove City College fell 75% between 1997 and 2000 ($10.5k → $2.6k).
+12%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Grove City College rose 12% between 2021 and 2024 ($19.3k → $21.7k).
-11%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Grove City College fell 11% between 2021 and 2024 (86.8% → 77.2%).
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.
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Pennsylvania median $49,859—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry79.7%+9% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%—-75% · '97→'00
At program completion2,221-3% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS87.8%-4% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time73.4%+170% · '01→'24
latest cohort$20,890+201% · '00→'24
out-of-state $20,890SECTION 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.
+201%
Grove City College · in-state tuition rose
$7,220 → $21,700
+74%
Grove City College · out-of-state tuition rose
$7,220 → $12,590
-75%
Grove City College · median debt fell
$10,461 → $2,625
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Grove City 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 Mechanical Engineering · Bachelor's Degree at Grove City 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 Pennsylvania
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Grove City College graduates earn $X” — not “Grove City College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Grove City 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.