-90%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Southwestern Christian College fell 90% between 2021 and 2024 (33.3% → 3.2%).
Texas · Private nonprofit · Predominantly associate's
Southwestern Christian College
Terrell, Texas. 128 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southwestern Christian 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.
+75%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Southwestern Christian College rose 75% between 2021 and 2024 ($8.4k → $14.6k).
+75%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Southwestern Christian College rose 75% between 2021 and 2024 ($8.4k → $14.6k).
-71%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Southwestern Christian College fell 71% between 2021 and 2024 (10.9% → 3.1%).
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.
$32,672+66% · 6→10y
Texas median $39,639$19,686
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry49.2%-92% · '97→'24
Texas median 51.8%—+103% · '97→'09
At program completion128-45% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+41% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$12,121+182% · '00→'24
out-of-state $12,121SECTION 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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-92%
Southwestern Christian College · completion · 150% fell
41.0% → 3.1%
-97%
Southwestern Christian College · completion · 100% fell
100.0% → 3.2%
+41%
Southwestern Christian College · retention rose
71.0% → 100.0%
-45%
Southwestern Christian College · undergrad enrollment fell
199 → 110
+182%
Southwestern Christian College · in-state tuition rose
$5,186 → $14,638
+182%
Southwestern Christian College · out-of-state tuition rose
$5,186 → $14,638
+103%
Southwestern Christian College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $5,339
+28%
Southwestern Christian College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$25,600 → $32,672
+51%
Southwestern Christian College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$20,800 → $31,436
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Southwestern Christian 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 Southwestern Christian 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
“Southwestern Christian College graduates earn $X” — not “Southwestern Christian College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southwestern Christian 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.