+170%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Salon Success Academy-Riverside rose 170% between 2007 and 2010 ($3.0k → $8.1k).
California · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Salon Success Academy-Riverside
Riverside, California. 173 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Salon Success Academy-Riverside
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.
+150%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Salon Success Academy-Riverside rose 150% between 2007 and 2010 (24.0% → 60.0%).
-17%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Salon Success Academy-Riverside fell 17% between 2007 and 2010 (76.0% → 63.2%).
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Salon Success Academy-Riverside fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.8% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. California
Each tile compares this institution to the California median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$21,777+28% · 6→10y
California median $42,588$17,045
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry80.0%-16% · '97→'10
California median 61.3%$10,534+207% · '06→'10
At program completion173-29% · '96→'10
latest IPEDS87.5%-26% · '04→'10
first-time, full-time—±0% · '01→'06
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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
6.4%Median federal debt $10,534 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $21,777 (10y after entry).
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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-26%
Salon Success Academy-Riverside · retention fell
81.0% → 60.0%
+207%
Salon Success Academy-Riverside · median debt rose
$2,625 → $8,066
-100%
Salon Success Academy-Riverside · cohort default rate fell
12.1% → 0.0%
+21%
Salon Success Academy-Riverside · pell share rose
68.0% → 82.5%
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in California
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Salon Success Academy-Riverside graduates earn $X” — not “Salon Success Academy-Riverside makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Salon Success Academy-Riverside 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.