-32pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 32 pp at William R Moore College of Technology vs the 2003–2007 baseline (47.4% vs 79.1%).
Tennessee · Private nonprofit · Predominantly certificates
William R Moore College of Technology
Memphis, Tennessee. 459 undergraduate students. 13 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at William R Moore College of Technology
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%
First-year retention
First-year retention at William R Moore College of Technology fell 18% between 2021 and 2024 (67.9% → 55.5%).
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.
$32,194-17% · 6→10y
Tennessee median $38,880$38,931
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry47.4%+44% · '97→'09
Tennessee median 57.6%—
At program completion459+99% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS63.9%-38% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$9,678+484% · '00→'24
out-of-state $9,678SECTION 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.
+44%
William R Moore College of Technology · completion · 150% rose
56.7% → 81.8%
-38%
William R Moore College of Technology · retention fell
90.0% → 55.5%
+91%
William R Moore College of Technology · undergrad enrollment rose
184 → 366
+484%
William R Moore College of Technology · in-state tuition rose
$1,665 → $9,723
+484%
William R Moore College of Technology · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,665 → $9,723
+173%
William R Moore College of Technology · pell share rose
12.9% → 35.4%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at William R Moore College of Technology
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 Precision Metal Working · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at William R Moore College of Technology(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 Tennessee
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“William R Moore College of Technology graduates earn $X” — not “William R Moore College of Technology makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending William R Moore College of Technology 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.