-57%
Goddard College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Goddard College are 57% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($25.6k vs $59.9k).
State hub · Vermont · vintage 2025-05
Vermont Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Vermont — 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 Vermont
Top signals rolled up across Vermontinstitutions — 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.
-49%
Sterling College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Sterling College are 49% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($30.6k vs $59.9k).
8.7%
Goddard College · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 8.7% at Goddard College exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($16.8k debt amortized over 10 years vs $25.6k earnings).
-85%
Sterling College · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Sterling College fell 85% between 2021 and 2024 (36.0% → 5.3%).
-54%
Sterling College · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Sterling College fell 54% between 2021 and 2024 (108 → 50).
-38%
Goddard College · Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Goddard College are 38% below 6-year earnings ($41.1k → $25.6k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Vermont Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
16
Title-IV main campuses740
with published outcomes$50,331
across institutions66.7%
median across institutions28,653
latest historical vintage$48,795
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Vermont 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.
+12%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
58.0% → 65.2%
+43%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
20,036 → 28,653
+267%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$13,280 → $48,795
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
7 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 7 of 16 Title-IV institutions · Public 3 · Private 11 · For-profit 2
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 14 Vermont cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
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.