+23%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Ben Franklin Career Center rose 23% between 2017 and 2020 ($5.0k → $6.2k).
West Virginia · Public · Predominantly certificates
Ben Franklin Career Center
Dunbar, West Virginia. 99 undergraduate students. 11 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Ben Franklin Career Center
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%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Ben Franklin Career Center rose 100% between 2021 and 2024 (39 → 78).
+23%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Ben Franklin Career Center rose 23% between 2017 and 2020 ($5.0k → $6.2k).
+33%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Ben Franklin Career Center rose 33% between 2021 and 2024 (70.0% → 93.2%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. West Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the West Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$37,962+33% · 6→10y
West Virginia median $37,714$28,611
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry70.0%-35% · '99→'09
West Virginia median 61.2%—
At program completion99-29% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS86.2%+2230% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—+275% · '01→'20
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 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.
-35%
Ben Franklin Career Center · completion · 150% fell
79.6% → 52.1%
+1784%
Ben Franklin Career Center · retention rose
4.0% → 93.2%
+275%
Ben Franklin Career Center · in-state tuition rose
$1,650 → $6,192
+275%
Ben Franklin Career Center · out-of-state tuition rose
$1,650 → $6,192
+291%
Ben Franklin Career Center · pell share rose
11.8% → 45.9%
+65%
Ben Franklin Career Center · earnings_median_10yr rose
$23,000 → $37,962
+24%
Ben Franklin Career Center · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,800 → $27,108
+25%
Ben Franklin Career Center · earnings_median_6yr rose
$22,900 → $28,611
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Ben Franklin Career Center
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 Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Ben Franklin Career Center(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 West Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Ben Franklin Career Center graduates earn $X” — not “Ben Franklin Career Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Ben Franklin Career Center 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.