-62%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty fell 62% between 2021 and 2024 (164 → 63).
Florida · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty
West Palm Beach, Florida. 116 undergraduate students. 7 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Palm Beach Academy of Health & 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty fell 100% between 2020 and 2023 (25.3% → 0.0%).
+50%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty rose 50% between 2017 and 2020 ($6.3k → $9.5k).
+96%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty are 96% above 6-year earnings ($15.7k → $30.8k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Florida
Each tile compares this institution to the Florida median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$30,784+96% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$15,730
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry60.3%-7% · '07→'09
Florida median 65.6%$7,666+85% · '07→'20
At program completion116-48% · '07→'24
latest IPEDS61.2%+7% · '07→'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 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
3.3%Median federal debt $7,666 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $30,784 (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.
-30%
Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty · undergrad enrollment fell
122 → 63
+85%
Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty · median debt rose
$5,129 → $9,500
-100%
Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty · cohort default rate fell
10.8% → 0.0%
+286%
Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty · pell share rose
15.9% → 61.3%
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
2 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
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Palm Beach Academy of Health & 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$252,224
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $25,482
- HS-only baseline · FL
- $35,400
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
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 Florida
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty graduates earn $X” — not “Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Palm Beach Academy of Health & 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.