-28%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski fell 28% between 2006 and 2009 (68.9% → 49.4%).
Tennessee · Public · Predominantly certificates
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski
Pulaski, Tennessee. 264 undergraduate students. 13 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski
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.
-13%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski fell 12% between 2021 and 2024 (281 → 246).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Tennessee
Each tile compares this institution to the Tennessee median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$40,368+12% · 6→10y
Tennessee median $38,880$36,193
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry69.5%-5% · '97→'09
Tennessee median 57.6%—
At program completion264+29% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS83.3%+25% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+25%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski · retention rose
71.0% → 88.6%
+28%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski · undergrad enrollment rose
191 → 246
-32%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski · pell share fell
28.8% → 19.7%
+40%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski · earnings_median_10yr rose
$28,800 → $40,368
+29%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski · earnings_median_8yr rose
$26,200 → $33,839
+39%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski · earnings_median_6yr rose
$26,000 → $36,193
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.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
4 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
CONSTRUCTION TRADES · CIP 46
PRECISION PRODUCTION · CIP 48
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski
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
$239,698
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 4
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $10,564
- HS-only baseline · TN
- $34,600
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 51
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 Tennessee
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski graduates earn $X” — not “Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Pulaski 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.