-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Bancroft School of Massage Therapy fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (6.0% → 0.0%).
Massachusetts · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Bancroft School of Massage Therapy
Worcester, Massachusetts. 51 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Bancroft School of Massage Therapy
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.
+23%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Bancroft School of Massage Therapy rose 23% between 2021 and 2024 (52 → 64).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Massachusetts
Each tile compares this institution to the Massachusetts median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Massachusetts median $56,022—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—+20% · '97→'09
Massachusetts median 66.5%$7,600+15% · '97→'16
At program completion51-64% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—+41% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time—-43% · '01→'17
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.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+41%
Bancroft School of Massage Therapy · retention rose
17.0% → 24.0%
-58%
Bancroft School of Massage Therapy · undergrad enrollment fell
180 → 64
-100%
Bancroft School of Massage Therapy · cohort default rate fell
3.2% → 0.0%
+34%
Bancroft School of Massage Therapy · earnings_median_8yr rose
$21,100 → $28,200
+26%
Bancroft School of Massage Therapy · earnings_median_6yr rose
$19,900 → $25,100
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Bancroft School of Massage Therapy
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 Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Bancroft School of Massage Therapy(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 Massachusetts
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Bancroft School of Massage Therapy graduates earn $X” — not “Bancroft School of Massage Therapy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Bancroft School of Massage Therapy 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.