-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (16.2% → 0.0%).
Delaware · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty
Newark, Delaware. 25 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty
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.
+40%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty rose 40% between 2021 and 2024 (71.4% → 100.0%).
+32%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty rose 32% between 2021 and 2024 (25 → 33).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Delaware
Each tile compares this institution to the Delaware median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Delaware median $38,242—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry41.7%
Delaware median 51.5%$9,500
At program completion25+32% · '16→'24
latest IPEDS80.0%+15% · '17→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+15%
Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty · retention rose
86.7% → 100.0%
-100%
Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty · cohort default rate fell
33.3% → 0.0%
+132%
Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty · pell share rose
29.4% → 68.1%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty
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 Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty(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 Delaware
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty graduates earn $X” — not “Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Hair Academy School of Barbering & Beauty 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.