-74%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago fell 74% between 2006 and 2009 (66.0% → 17.2%).
Illinois · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois. 8 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago
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.
+34%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago rose 34% between 2006 and 2009 (68 → 91).
+35%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago rose 35% between 2007 and 2009 ($1.9k → $2.6k).
+17%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago rose 17% between 2006 and 2009 (52.3% → 61.3%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Illinois
Each tile compares this institution to the Illinois median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$18,132+24% · 6→10y
Illinois median $40,810$14,597
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry58.3%-39% · '04→'09
Illinois median 53.3%$2,533+100% · '01→'09
At program completion8-1% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS75.0%-77% · '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 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
1.9%Median federal debt $2,533 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $18,132 (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.
-39%
Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago · completion · 150% fell
100.0% → 61.3%
-77%
Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago · retention fell
75.0% → 17.2%
+100%
Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago · median debt rose
$1,313 → $2,625
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago
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 Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago(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 Illinois
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago graduates earn $X” — not “Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Cannella School of Hair Design-Chicago 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.