-55%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology fell 55% between 2006 and 2009 (100.0% → 45.0%).
California · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology
Garden Grove, California. 54 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology
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.
+152%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology rose 152% between 2006 and 2009 (29 → 73).
-33pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 32 pp at Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology vs the 2003–2007 baseline (54.5% vs 87.0%).
-11%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology fell 11% between 2006 and 2009 (90.9% → 80.8%).
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.
$13,265+17% · 6→10y
California median $42,588$11,290
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry54.5%+35% · '97→'09
California median 61.3%—
At program completion54+16% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS87.5%-55% · '04→'09
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.
+35%
Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology · completion · 150% rose
60.0% → 80.8%
-55%
Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology · retention fell
100.0% → 45.0%
+270%
Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology · pell share rose
27.1% → 100.0%
-20%
Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology · earnings_median_8yr fell
$16,200 → $12,906
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
“Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology graduates earn $X” — not “Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Thanh Le College School of Cosmetology 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.