-2%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Sentara College of Health Sciences are 1% below 6-year earnings ($79.0k → $77.8k).
Virginia · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's
Sentara College of Health Sciences
Chesapeake, Virginia. 239 undergraduate students. 4 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Sentara College of Health Sciences
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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Sentara College of Health Sciences fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (0.7% → 0.0%).
+48%
Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Sentara College of Health Sciences are 48% above the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($77.8k vs $52.7k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$77,821-1% · 6→10y
Virginia median $44,813$78,992
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—-6% · '97→'13
Virginia median 50.7%$15,694+194% · '97→'20
At program completion239+297% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—-11% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time—-26% · '01→'10
latest cohort—+10% · '01→'04
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 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
2.7%Median federal debt $15,694 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $77,821 (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.
-11%
Sentara College of Health Sciences · retention fell
88.0% → 78.0%
+91%
Sentara College of Health Sciences · undergrad enrollment rose
61 → 242
+194%
Sentara College of Health Sciences · median debt rose
$6,625 → $19,450
-100%
Sentara College of Health Sciences · cohort default rate fell
5.8% → 0.0%
+116%
Sentara College of Health Sciences · pell share rose
16.2% → 35.0%
+36%
Sentara College of Health Sciences · earnings_median_10yr rose
$57,100 → $77,821
+41%
Sentara College of Health Sciences · earnings_median_6yr rose
$56,200 → $78,992
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
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Sentara College of Health Sciences
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 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Bachelor's Degree at Sentara College of Health Sciences(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 Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Sentara College of Health Sciences graduates earn $X” — not “Sentara College of Health Sciences makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Sentara College of Health Sciences 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.