-19%
Private nonprofit associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Lackawanna College are 19% below the private nonprofit associate's-predominant peer median ($41.0k vs $50.8k).
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit · Predominantly associate's
Lackawanna College
Scranton, Pennsylvania. 1,837 undergraduate students. 45 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Lackawanna 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.
+19%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Lackawanna College rose 19% between 2017 and 2020 ($15.2k → $18.1k).
-16%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Lackawanna College fell 16% between 2006 and 2009 (33.8% → 28.4%).
+15%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Lackawanna College rose 15% between 2006 and 2009 ($9.7k → $11.2k).
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.
$41,000+15% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$35,500
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry37.7%-16% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$11,500+446% · '97→'20
At program completion1,837+168% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%+39% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$17,950+131% · '00→'24
out-of-state $17,950SECTION 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
3.7%Median federal debt $11,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $41,000 (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.
+320%
Lackawanna College · completion · 100% rose
15.9% → 66.7%
+39%
Lackawanna College · retention rose
60.0% → 83.3%
+168%
Lackawanna College · undergrad enrollment rose
726 → 1,947
+131%
Lackawanna College · in-state tuition rose
$7,970 → $18,400
+40%
Lackawanna College · out-of-state tuition rose
$7,970 → $11,160
+446%
Lackawanna College · median debt rose
$3,313 → $18,075
-100%
Lackawanna College · cohort default rate fell
16.1% → 0.0%
+22%
Lackawanna College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$33,700 → $41,000
+21%
Lackawanna College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$29,300 → $35,500
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
Criminal Justice and Corrections.$75,891Mining and Petroleum Technologies/Technicians.$74,122Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$56,620Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.$44,444Accounting and Related Services.$44,136Business/Commerce, General.$39,998Criminal Justice and Corrections.$36,152Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$34,989Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$31,111
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
9 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 15
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Lackawanna 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$71,462
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $24,822
- HS-only baseline · PA
- $38,100
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
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
“Lackawanna College graduates earn $X” — not “Lackawanna College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Lackawanna 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.