-57%
First-year retention
First-year retention at VH Barber & Styling Academy fell 57% between 2021 and 2024 (33.3% → 14.3%).
Louisiana · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
VH Barber & Styling Academy
Bossier City, Louisiana. 24 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at VH Barber & Styling Academy
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 VH Barber & Styling Academy fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (10.0% → 0.0%).
-27%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at VH Barber & Styling Academy fell 27% between 2021 and 2024 (37 → 27).
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.
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Louisiana median $33,099—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry28.6%
Louisiana median 52.0%$9,500-6% · '19→'20
At program completion24+1250% · '15→'24
latest IPEDS33.3%
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.
+286%
VH Barber & Styling Academy · retention rose
0.0% → 14.3%
-100%
VH Barber & Styling Academy · cohort default rate fell
44.4% → 0.0%
+1588%
VH Barber & Styling Academy · pell share rose
0.0% → 79.4%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at VH Barber & Styling Academy
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 VH Barber & Styling Academy(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
“VH Barber & Styling Academy graduates earn $X” — not “VH Barber & Styling Academy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending VH Barber & Styling Academy 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.