-46%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Cisco College fell 46% between 2021 and 2024 (3.0k → 1.6k).
Texas · Public · Predominantly certificates
Cisco College
Cisco, Texas. 2,913 undergraduate students. 47 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Cisco 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.
+43%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Cisco College rose 43% between 2021 and 2024 ($5.0k → $7.1k).
-42%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Cisco College fell 42% between 2006 and 2009 (14.6% → 8.5%).
+24%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Cisco College rose 24% between 2021 and 2024 ($3.8k → $4.7k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Texas
Each tile compares this institution to the Texas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$39,092+15% · 6→10y
Texas median $39,639$34,134
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry30.6%-54% · '99→'09
Texas median 51.8%$6,500+262% · '97→'20
At program completion2,913-37% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS57.4%+19% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$4,110+492% · '00→'24
out-of-state $5,760SECTION 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
2.2%Median federal debt $6,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $39,092 (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.
-54%
Cisco College · completion · 150% fell
18.5% → 8.5%
+19%
Cisco College · retention rose
56.0% → 66.8%
-37%
Cisco College · undergrad enrollment fell
2,583 → 1,620
+391%
Cisco College · in-state tuition rose
$796 → $4,710
+473%
Cisco College · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,246 → $7,140
+262%
Cisco College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $9,500
-25%
Cisco College · pell share fell
34.2% → 25.8%
+29%
Cisco College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$26,500 → $34,134
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Cisco 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 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree at Cisco 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 Texas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Cisco College graduates earn $X” — not “Cisco College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Cisco 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.