-64%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 64% at American Educational College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (231 vs 648).
Puerto Rico · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
American Educational College
Bayamon, Puerto Rico. 231 undergraduate students. 8 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at American Educational 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.
+39%
First-year retention
First-year retention at American Educational College rose 39% between 2021 and 2024 (31.8% → 44.2%).
+13%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at American Educational College rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 ($7.4k → $8.3k).
+13%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at American Educational College rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 ($7.4k → $8.3k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Puerto Rico
Each tile compares this institution to the Puerto Rico median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$17,172+24% · 6→10y
Puerto Rico median $23,370$13,901
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry68.7%+448% · '97→'09
Puerto Rico median 52.5%—
At program completion231+99% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS59.2%-41% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—±0% · '01→'05
latest cohort$8,306+15% · '01→'24
out-of-state $8,306SECTION 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.
+448%
American Educational College · completion · 150% rose
6.7% → 36.5%
-41%
American Educational College · retention fell
75.0% → 44.2%
+99%
American Educational College · undergrad enrollment rose
365 → 727
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at American Educational 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 Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at American Educational 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 Puerto Rico
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“American Educational College graduates earn $X” — not “American Educational College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending American Educational 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.