-23%
First-year retention
First-year retention at PPG Technical College fell 23% between 2021 and 2024 (87.3% → 67.0%).
Puerto Rico · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
PPG Technical College
Caguas, Puerto Rico. 194 undergraduate students. 7 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at PPG Technical 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.
+18%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at PPG Technical College rose 18% between 2021 and 2024 ($7.3k → $8.6k).
+18%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at PPG Technical College rose 18% between 2021 and 2024 ($7.3k → $8.6k).
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.
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Puerto Rico median $23,370$18,607
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry54.3%
Puerto Rico median 52.5%—
At program completion194
latest IPEDS74.7%+34% · '15→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$8,620+13% · '15→'24
out-of-state $8,620SECTION 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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at PPG Technical 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
-$138,166
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $9,632
- HS-only baseline · PR
- $22,400
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 01
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
“PPG Technical College graduates earn $X” — not “PPG Technical College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending PPG Technical 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.