-47%
Cornish College of the Arts · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Cornish College of the Arts are 47% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.7k vs $63.3k).
State hub · Washington · vintage 2025-05
Washington Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Washington — 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 Washington
Top signals rolled up across Washingtoninstitutions — 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.
-28%
The Evergreen State College · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at The Evergreen State College are 28% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($45.3k vs $62.6k).
-22%
Bastyr University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Bastyr University are 22% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($49.4k vs $63.3k).
-22%
Heritage University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Heritage University are 22% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($49.4k vs $63.3k).
-19%
Northwest Indian College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Northwest Indian College are 19% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($35.4k vs $43.8k).
-15%
Peninsula College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Peninsula College are 15% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($37.1k vs $43.8k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Washington Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
86
Title-IV main campuses4,039
with published outcomes$47,350
across institutions46.8%
median across institutions213,977
latest historical vintage$6,012
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Washington 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.
+23%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
33.9% → 41.5%
-14%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment fell
249,766 → 213,977
+221%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$1,870 → $6,012
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
50 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 50 of 86 Title-IV institutions · Public 40 · Private 24 · For-profit 22
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 41 Washington cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Aberdeen
- Airway Heights
- Auburn
- Bellevue
- Bellingham
- Bothell
- Bremerton
- Centralia
- Cheney
- College Place
- Des Moines
- Ellensburg
- Everett
- Federal Way
- Kenmore
- Kennewick
- Kirkland
- Lacey
- Lakewood
- Longview
- Lynnwood
- Moses Lake
- Mount Vernon
- Olympia
- Pasco
- Port Angeles
- Port Hadlock
- Pullman
- Redmond
- Renton
- Richland
- Seattle
- Shoreline
- Spokane
- Spokane Valley
- Tacoma
- Toppenish
- Vancouver
- Walla Walla
- Wenatchee
- Yakima
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.