-36%
Lane College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Lane College are 36% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($31.7k vs $49.3k).
State hub · Tennessee · vintage 2025-05
Tennessee Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Tennessee — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Tennessee
Top signals rolled up across Tennesseeinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-28%
Le Moyne-Owen College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Le Moyne-Owen College are 28% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.6k vs $49.3k).
-21%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Henry/Carroll · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Henry/Carroll are 21% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($29.1k vs $36.8k).
-20%
The University of Tennessee Southern · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at The University of Tennessee Southern are 20% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($38.9k vs $48.5k).
-16%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Crump · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Crump are 16% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($30.8k vs $36.8k).
-15%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Memphis · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Memphis are 15% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($31.2k vs $36.8k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Tennessee Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
126
Title-IV main campuses4,076
with published outcomes$38,880
across institutions57.6%
median across institutions239,238
latest historical vintage$13,804
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Tennessee has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+11%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
45.5% → 50.6%
+28%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
186,673 → 239,238
+220%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$4,320 → $13,804
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
41 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 41 of 126 Title-IV institutions · Public 47 · Private 41 · For-profit 38
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 57 Tennessee cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Athens
- Blountville
- Bristol
- Chattanooga
- Clarksville
- Cleveland
- Collegedale
- Columbia
- Cookeville
- Crossville
- Crump
- Dayton
- Dickson
- Dyersburg
- Elizabethton
- Fayetteville
- Franklin
- Gallatin
- Greeneville
- Harriman
- Harrogate
- Hartsville
- Henderson
- Hendersonville
- Hohenwald
- Huntsville
- Jacksboro
- Jackson
- Jefferson City
- Johnson City
- Knoxville
- Lawrenceburg
- Lebanon
- Lexington
- Livingston
- Madison
- Manchester
- Martin
- Maryville
- McKenzie
- McMinnville
- Memphis
- Milan
- Milligan
- Millington
- Morristown
- Murfreesboro
- Nashville
- New Tazewell
- Newbern
- Old Hickory
- Paris
- Pulaski
- Sewanee
- Shelbyville
- Sweetwater
- Tullahoma
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.