-62%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at United Technical Center fell 62% between 2021 and 2024 (26 → 10).
West Virginia · Public · Predominantly certificates
United Technical Center
Clarksburg, West Virginia. 23 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at United Technical 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.
+29%
Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at United Technical Center are 29% above the public certificate-predominant peer median ($49.1k vs $38.0k).
-17%
First-year retention
First-year retention at United Technical Center fell 17% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 83.3%).
-12pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 12 pp at United Technical Center vs the 2003–2007 baseline (75.0% vs 87.2%).
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.
$49,130+22% · 6→10y
West Virginia median $37,714$40,317
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry75.0%-22% · '00→'09
West Virginia median 61.2%—
At program completion23
latest IPEDS54.5%-13% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—+607% · '04→'22
latest cohort$4,400+104% · '01→'24
out-of-state $4,400SECTION 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.
-22%
United Technical Center · completion · 150% fell
94.4% → 74.1%
-13%
United Technical Center · retention fell
96.0% → 83.3%
+104%
United Technical Center · in-state tuition rose
$2,300 → $4,700
+104%
United Technical Center · out-of-state tuition rose
$2,300 → $4,700
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at United Technical 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 Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at United Technical 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
“United Technical Center graduates earn $X” — not “United Technical Center makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending United Technical 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.