+126%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling rose 126% between 2020 and 2023 (1.9% → 4.3%).
Michigan · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling
Grand Blanc, Michigan. 26 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling
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.
+57%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling rose 57% between 2009 and 2010 ($3.5k → $5.5k).
-50%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling fell 50% between 2006 and 2009 (100.0% → 50.0%).
-45%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling fell 45% between 2021 and 2024 (29 → 16).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Michigan
Each tile compares this institution to the Michigan median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$16,266-10% · 6→10y
Michigan median $38,167$18,144
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—-35% · '98→'09
Michigan median 57.1%—+57% · '09→'10
At program completion26+78% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—±0% · '04→'16
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 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.
-35%
Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling · completion · 150% fell
76.9% → 50.0%
+57%
Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling · median debt rose
$3,500 → $5,500
+215%
Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling · cohort default rate rose
0.0% → 4.3%
+28%
Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling · earnings_median_10yr rose
$12,100 → $16,266
+44%
Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling · earnings_median_8yr rose
$13,200 → $19,831
+50%
Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling · earnings_median_6yr rose
$10,700 → $18,144
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling
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 Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling(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 Michigan
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling graduates earn $X” — not “Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Sharp's Academy of Hairstyling 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.