+74%
L Makeup Institute · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at L Makeup Institute rose 74% between 2018 and 2020 ($3.9k → $6.7k).
State hub · Nevada · vintage 2025-05
Nevada Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Nevada — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Nevada
Top signals rolled up across Nevadainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-35%
Paul Mitchell the School-Reno · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Paul Mitchell the School-Reno fell 35% between 2021 and 2024 (247 → 161).
-30%
Paul Mitchell the School-Las Vegas · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Paul Mitchell the School-Las Vegas fell 30% between 2021 and 2024 (293 → 204).
+24%
Great Basin College · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Great Basin College rose 24% between 2017 and 2020 ($12.8k → $15.8k).
+17%
Northwest Career College · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Northwest Career College rose 17% between 2017 and 2020 ($8.2k → $9.5k).
-15%
Las Vegas College · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Las Vegas College fell 15% between 2021 and 2024 (632 → 536).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Nevada Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Title-IV main campuses925
with published outcomes$39,289
across institutions62.5%
median across institutions88,716
latest historical vintage$5,562
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Nevada has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+78%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
22.9% → 40.9%
+128%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
38,987 → 88,716
+298%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$1,396 → $5,562
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
8 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 8 of 20 Title-IV institutions · Public 7 · Private 2 · For-profit 11
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 5 Nevada cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.