-47%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Velvatex College of Beauty Culture fell 47% between 2021 and 2024 (15 → 8).
Arkansas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Velvatex College of Beauty Culture
Little Rock, Arkansas. 12 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Velvatex College of Beauty Culture
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%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Velvatex College of Beauty Culture fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (9.0% → 0.0%).
-27%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Velvatex College of Beauty Culture fell 27% between 2009 and 2010 (76.5% → 55.6%).
-16pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 16 pp at Velvatex College of Beauty Culture vs the 2004–2008 baseline (64.3% vs 80.1%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Arkansas
Each tile compares this institution to the Arkansas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$17,412+21% · 6→10y
Arkansas median $34,871$14,400
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry64.3%+78% · '99→'10
Arkansas median 47.1%—
At program completion12-43% · '98→'24
latest IPEDS75.0%+4% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
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.
+78%
Velvatex College of Beauty Culture · completion · 150% rose
50.0% → 88.9%
-27%
Velvatex College of Beauty Culture · completion · 100% fell
76.5% → 55.6%
+24%
Velvatex College of Beauty Culture · pell share rose
81.0% → 100.0%
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Arkansas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Velvatex College of Beauty Culture graduates earn $X” — not “Velvatex College of Beauty Culture makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Velvatex College of Beauty Culture 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.