-40%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology fell 40% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 60.0%).
Georgia · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology
Dalton, Georgia. 71 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Dalton Institute of Esthetics and 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.4% → 0.0%).
+13%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology rose 13% between 2019 and 2020 ($5.5k → $6.2k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Georgia
Each tile compares this institution to the Georgia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Georgia median $38,208—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry6.7%
Georgia median 41.6%$6,222+13% · '19→'20
At program completion71+135% · '16→'24
latest IPEDS90.0%-40% · '16→'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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-40%
Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology · retention fell
100.0% → 60.0%
-100%
Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology · cohort default rate fell
4.3% → 0.0%
-42%
Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology · pell share fell
73.0% → 42.1%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology
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 Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology(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 Georgia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology graduates earn $X” — not “Dalton Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Dalton Institute of Esthetics and 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.