-18%
10-year median earnings
10-year median earnings at West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty fell 18% between 2011 and 2014 ($16.6k → $13.6k).
Michigan · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty
Kalamazoo, Michigan. 85 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty
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.
-96%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty fell 96% between 2020 and 2023 (34.4% → 1.4%).
-15%
First-year retention
First-year retention at West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty fell 15% between 2021 and 2024 (75.0% → 63.6%).
+60%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty rose 60% between 2006 and 2009 (57.6% → 92.3%).
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.
—-12% · 6→8y
Michigan median $38,167$16,848
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%+23% · '02→'09
Michigan median 57.1%$9,500+198% · '09→'20
At program completion85+196% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS63.6%-10% · '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 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.
+23%
West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty · completion · 150% rose
75.0% → 92.3%
-10%
West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty · retention fell
71.0% → 63.6%
+27%
West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty · undergrad enrollment rose
27 → 80
+198%
West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty · median debt rose
$3,500 → $10,433
+70%
West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty · cohort default rate rose
0.0% → 1.4%
+23%
West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty · earnings_median_6yr rose
$13,400 → $16,848
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 West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty
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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$153,935
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $8,314
- HS-only baseline · MI
- $36,900
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
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
“West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty graduates earn $X” — not “West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending West Michigan College of Barbering and Beauty 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.