+13%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City rose 13% between 2018 and 2020 ($11.8k → $13.4k).
Iowa · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City
Sioux City, Iowa. 40 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City
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.
+379%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City rose 379% between 2021 and 2024 (14 → 67).
-6pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 6 pp at Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City vs the 2003–2007 baseline (63.6% vs 69.9%).
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.7% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Iowa
Each tile compares this institution to the Iowa median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$26,654+26% · 6→10y
Iowa median $42,849$21,111
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry63.6%+7% · '02→'09
Iowa median 58.4%$9,500+162% · '02→'20
At program completion40+109% · '02→'24
latest IPEDS66.7%-8% · '04→'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
4.7%Median federal debt $9,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $26,654 (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.
+162%
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City · median debt rose
$5,105 → $13,389
-100%
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City · cohort default rate fell
4.1% → 0.0%
+120%
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City · pell share rose
29.0% → 63.9%
+65%
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City · earnings_median_10yr rose
$16,200 → $26,654
+57%
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City · earnings_median_8yr rose
$17,300 → $27,104
+63%
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City · earnings_median_6yr rose
$11,700 → $21,111
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City
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 Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City(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 Iowa
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City graduates earn $X” — not “Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City 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.