-34%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at James Rumsey Technical Institute fell 34% between 2021 and 2024 (151 → 99).
West Virginia · Public · Predominantly certificates
James Rumsey Technical Institute
Martinsburg, West Virginia. 137 undergraduate students. 11 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at James Rumsey Technical 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.
+12%
In-state tuition
In-state tuition at James Rumsey Technical Institute rose 12% between 2003 and 2006 ($1.6k → $1.9k).
+11%
Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at James Rumsey Technical Institute rose 11% between 2003 and 2006 ($1.9k → $2.0k).
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.
$45,133+6% · 6→10y
West Virginia median $37,714$42,576
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry88.9%-0% · '98→'09
West Virginia median 61.2%—
At program completion137-81% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS93.3%-15% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—+12% · '01→'06
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.
-15%
James Rumsey Technical Institute · retention fell
100.0% → 85.5%
-81%
James Rumsey Technical Institute · undergrad enrollment fell
522 → 99
+29%
James Rumsey Technical Institute · pell share rose
20.4% → 26.3%
+63%
James Rumsey Technical Institute · earnings_median_8yr rose
$30,200 → $49,247
+50%
James Rumsey Technical Institute · earnings_median_6yr rose
$28,400 → $42,576
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at James Rumsey Technical 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 Ground Transportation · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at James Rumsey Technical 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 West Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“James Rumsey Technical Institute graduates earn $X” — not “James Rumsey Technical Institute makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending James Rumsey Technical 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.