-25%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette fell 25% between 2021 and 2024 (193 → 144).
Louisiana · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana. 134 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette
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 Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.0% → 0.0%).
-16%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette fell 16% between 2017 and 2020 ($9.5k → $7.9k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Louisiana
Each tile compares this institution to the Louisiana median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$23,904+20% · 6→10y
Louisiana median $33,099$19,975
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry87.1%+53% · '97→'09
Louisiana median 52.0%$7,411+463% · '97→'20
At program completion134+62% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%+12% · '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
4.1%Median federal debt $7,411 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $23,904 (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.
+53%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · completion · 150% rose
58.5% → 89.7%
+12%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · retention rose
89.0% → 100.0%
+28%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · undergrad enrollment rose
89 → 144
+463%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · median debt rose
$1,407 → $7,916
-100%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · cohort default rate fell
13.6% → 0.0%
+70%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · earnings_median_10yr rose
$13,400 → $23,904
+55%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · earnings_median_8yr rose
$13,600 → $21,877
+47%
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette · earnings_median_6yr rose
$12,900 → $19,975
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
1 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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette
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 Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette(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 Louisiana
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette graduates earn $X” — not “Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette 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.