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Institutional Accountability

Outcomes
Scorecard

NSTAR publishes outcome data for every program and every cohort. Income mobility, role elevation, and offer improvement — tracked, verified, and made public. This page is updated as cohort data becomes available. It is never adjusted to look better than it is.

Metric 01
Income Mobility
Median salary change at 6 months and 12 months post-graduation, by program and cohort.
Metric 02
Role Elevation
Percentage of graduates who secure a target role or promotion within 12 months of completing their program.
Metric 03
Offer Improvement
Documented compensation gains from NSTAR career strategy frameworks applied during the job search.
Why We Publish
Accountability Is Not Optional at an Institution

Most career programs do not publish their outcomes. They share testimonials, highlight their best success stories, and describe target outcomes in marketing language. NSTAR does not do that.

We publish because our audience — mid-career immigrant and first-generation professionals making a significant financial and time investment — deserves to know what actually happens after people complete our programs. Not the best case. The median case. By program. By cohort. Publicly.

We also publish because it makes us better. When every cohort knows that outcome data will be collected and published, the institutional incentive to deliver is structural — not dependent on good intentions alone.

If our outcomes are strong, this page is evidence of that. If our outcomes are not where they need to be, this page tells us and tells you — and that accountability drives improvement. That is what an institution does.

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Median, not best case
We report median outcomes across the cohort — not the highest earner, not the fastest transition. The number that reflects what a typical graduate experiences.
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Verified, not self-reported
Outcome data is collected through structured alumni surveys and verified against available professional records where possible. We flag the difference between verified and self-reported data.
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By cohort, not aggregate
Data is published at the cohort level so you can see how each individual cohort performed — not a combined average that obscures variation.
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Updated as data arrives
The 6-month and 12-month data points for each cohort are published as they become available. This page reflects the most current available data at all times.
The Three Metrics
What We Track and How

Three metrics. Tracked at defined intervals. Published by program and cohort without adjustment.

01
Income Mobility
The core question: did completing an NSTAR program change what graduates earn? Measured at two defined points to capture both the early transition period and the stabilized outcome.
Median salary at graduation (baseline)
Median salary at 6 months post-graduation
Median salary at 12 months post-graduation
Reported separately for career changers vs. salary advancement within existing field
02
Role Elevation
Did graduates actually land the roles the program was designed to prepare them for? Role elevation captures whether the career move happened — not just whether income changed.
Percentage securing a target role within 6 months of graduation
Percentage securing a target role within 12 months of graduation
Target roles defined per program — not self-assessed by graduates
Reported separately for full career transitions vs. internal promotions
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Offer Improvement
NSTAR's career positioning, interview preparation, and salary negotiation frameworks are a core part of every program. Offer improvement measures whether those frameworks produce documented results.
Median difference between first offer received and final accepted offer
Percentage of graduates who successfully negotiated from initial offer
Median documented gain from negotiation across the cohort
Self-reported — flagged as such in published data
What we do not track: We do not track or publish anecdotal success stories as outcome data. Individual testimonials appear elsewhere on the site. The scorecard contains only structured, consistent, cohort-level data collected through the same methodology for every program.
Published Data
Cohort Scorecard

Data is published by program as each cohort reaches its 6-month and 12-month outcome measurement points. NSTAR 2.0 launched in 2026 — the first cohort data will be published as it becomes available.

Enterprise Delivery & Program Leadership
Cohorts 1–4 Now Enrolling
Now
Cohorts 1–4 Enrolling
2026
6 Months Post-Grad
First Data Published
Cohort 1 — Late 2026
12 Months Post-Grad
Full Cohort 1 Data
2027
Ongoing
Cohorts 2–4 Data
Published as available
Cohort Status Income Mobility Role Elevation Offer Improvement Last Updated
Cohort 01
 Enrolling Data pending — 6-month survey: Late 2026 Pending Pending —
Cohort 02
 Enrolling Data pending Pending Pending —
Cohort 03
 Enrolling Data pending Pending Pending —
Cohort 04
 Enrolling Data pending Pending Pending —
Enterprise Data Systems Engineering
Waitlist Open — Launching Soon
Now
Waitlist Open
2026
6–8 Weeks After Flagship
Cohort 1 Enrolling
2026
6 Months Post-Grad
First Data Published
2027
12 Months Post-Grad
Full Cohort 1 Data
2027
Cohort Status Income Mobility Role Elevation Offer Improvement Last Updated
Cohort 01
 Waitlist Data pending — program launching soon Pending Pending —
Promotion Intensive
Interest List Open — Launching Soon
Now
Interest List Open
2026
Launching Soon
Cohort 1 Enrolling
2026
3 Months Post-Program
First Data Published
2026–2027
12 Months Post-Program
Full Cohort 1 Data
2027
Cohort Status Role Elevation to Director+ Median Salary Increase 90-Day Plan Completion Last Updated
Cohort 01
 Interest List Data pending — program launching soon Pending Pending —
What Published Data Will Look Like
Enterprise Delivery & Program Leadership — Cohort 01
12-Month Data · Published [Date]
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Income Mobility — 12 Months +$24,000 Median salary increase across cohort
Role Elevation — 12 Months 78% Secured target role within 12 months
Offer Improvement $8,500 Median documented negotiation gain
This is an illustrative example of how cohort data will appear when published. These are not real outcomes — real data will replace this when Cohort 1 reaches its 12-month measurement point.
How Data Is Collected
The Methodology

Outcome data is collected through a defined process applied consistently to every program and every cohort. Here is exactly how it works.

Step 01
Baseline at Graduation
At program completion, every graduate submits a structured profile including current compensation, current title, and target role. This becomes the baseline against which all future measurements are compared.
Step 02
6-Month Survey
Six months after graduation, every cohort member receives a structured outcome survey. Response rate targets are set at 80%+ per cohort. Non-responses are noted in the published data rather than excluded.
Step 03
12-Month Survey & Publication
Twelve months after graduation, the second structured survey is collected and the full cohort dataset is compiled, reviewed, and published on this page. Both 6-month and 12-month data appear together.
Outcome data is self-reported by graduates and flagged as such. Where graduates have publicly available professional profiles that can be cross-referenced, NSTAR does so. The methodology is designed for consistency across cohorts — not for presenting the most favorable interpretation of the data.
NSTAR Alumni
Your Outcomes
Are Part of This

If you are an NSTAR graduate, your outcome data contributes to the cohort scorecard. When the 6-month and 12-month surveys are sent, your response matters — not just for your own record, but for every future student who uses this page to evaluate whether NSTAR is worth their investment. Register here to ensure you receive the survey when it is sent.

Alumni Outcome Registration
Ensure you receive your cohort survey when it is sent.
Your information is used only for outcome survey delivery. It is never shared.
NSTAR Technologies — Outcomes Committed

The Data Will
Speak for Itself.

We are at the beginning of NSTAR 2.0. The first cohort data will be published as it becomes available. In the meantime — the programs are open, the faculty are practitioners, and the commitment to publish is institutional.

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