-24%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Seattle Film Institute fell 24% between 2021 and 2024 (86 → 65).
Washington · Private for-profit · Predominantly bachelor's
Seattle Film Institute
Seattle, Washington. 60 undergraduate students. 5 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Seattle Film Institute
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.
-20%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Seattle Film Institute fell 20% between 2021 and 2024 (71.4% → 57.1%).
-13%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Seattle Film Institute fell 12% between 2021 and 2024 (88.9% → 77.8%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Washington
Each tile compares this institution to the Washington median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Washington median $47,350—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry88.9%-43% · '16→'24
Washington median 46.8%$12,063+7% · '19→'20
At program completion60+33% · '16→'24
latest IPEDS72.7%+4% · '20→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$33,000+9% · '16→'24
out-of-state $33,000SECTION 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.
-43%
Seattle Film Institute · completion · 150% fell
100.0% → 57.1%
+637%
Seattle Film Institute · pell share rose
7.7% → 56.7%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Seattle Film Institute
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 Film/Video and Photographic Arts · Bachelor's Degree at Seattle Film Institute(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 Washington
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Seattle Film Institute graduates earn $X” — not “Seattle Film Institute makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Seattle Film Institute 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.