-22%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing fell 22% between 1997 and 1998 (71.4% → 55.6%).
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing
Pottsville, Pennsylvania. 55 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing
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.
+37%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing are 37% above 6-year earnings ($62.9k → $86.1k).
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.
$86,138+37% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$62,865
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—-22% · '97→'98
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$14,000+67% · '97→'20
At program completion55-41% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS—
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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
2.2%Median federal debt $14,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $86,138 (10y after entry).
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.
-22%
Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing · completion · 150% fell
71.4% → 55.6%
-22%
Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing · undergrad enrollment fell
104 → 61
+67%
Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing · median debt rose
$8,625 → $14,400
-100%
Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing · cohort default rate fell
9.6% → 0.0%
+37%
Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing · earnings_median_8yr rose
$58,200 → $79,815
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing
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 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing(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
“Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing graduates earn $X” — not “Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing 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.