-29%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Clinton College are 29% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($30.2k vs $42.6k).
South Carolina · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Clinton College
Rock Hill, South Carolina. 94 undergraduate students. 8 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Clinton 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.
-63%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Clinton College fell 63% between 2021 and 2024 (38.1% → 14.1%).
+47%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Clinton College rose 47% between 2017 and 2020 ($19.7k → $29.0k).
-36pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 36 pp at Clinton College vs the 2018–2022 baseline (11.1% vs 46.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. South Carolina
Each tile compares this institution to the South Carolina median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$30,180+26% · 6→10y
South Carolina median $39,325$24,047
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry11.1%-78% · '00→'24
South Carolina median 44.4%$12,000+2109% · '01→'20
At program completion94+4% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS36.4%-8% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$10,516+519% · '02→'24
out-of-state $10,516SECTION 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
5.3%Median federal debt $12,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $30,180 (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.
-78%
Clinton College · completion · 150% fell
63.6% → 14.1%
+117%
Clinton College · completion · 100% rose
38.5% → 83.3%
+519%
Clinton College · in-state tuition rose
$1,800 → $11,136
+519%
Clinton College · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,800 → $11,136
+2109%
Clinton College · median debt rose
$1,312 → $28,987
-100%
Clinton College · cohort default rate fell
45.9% → 0.0%
+117%
Clinton College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$12,600 → $30,180
+77%
Clinton College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$12,500 → $24,043
+70%
Clinton College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$13,600 → $24,047
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Clinton 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 Business Administration, Management and Operations · Bachelor's Degree at Clinton 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 South Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Clinton College graduates earn $X” — not “Clinton College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Clinton 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.