-44%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex fell 44% between 2021 and 2024 (62 → 35).
Maryland · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex
Baltimore, Maryland. 36 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex
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 Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.2% → 0.0%).
+29%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex rose 29% between 2021 and 2024 (66.7% → 85.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Maryland
Each tile compares this institution to the Maryland median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$20,445-3% · 6→10y
Maryland median $46,719$21,104
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry78.1%+40% · '97→'09
Maryland median 52.1%$5,713+224% · '03→'20
At program completion36-53% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%-1% · '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
3.7%Median federal debt $5,713 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $20,445 (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.
+40%
Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex · completion · 150% rose
65.4% → 91.4%
-20%
Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex · undergrad enrollment fell
75 → 35
+224%
Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex · median debt rose
$2,625 → $8,500
-100%
Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex · cohort default rate fell
15.2% → 0.0%
+66%
Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex · earnings_median_8yr rose
$15,100 → $25,066
+34%
Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex · earnings_median_6yr rose
$15,800 → $21,104
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex
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 Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex(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 Maryland
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex graduates earn $X” — not “Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Maryland Beauty Academy of Essex 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.