-29%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley fell 29% between 2006 and 2009 (87.8% → 62.4%).
Pennsylvania · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley
Whitehall, Pennsylvania. 133 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley
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 Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.4% → 0.0%).
+25%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley rose 25% between 2021 and 2024 (79 → 99).
+11%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 (57.1% → 63.2%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Pennsylvania
Each tile compares this institution to the Pennsylvania median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$25,073+30% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$19,285
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry64.3%-8% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$8,028+277% · '97→'20
At program completion133+65% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS86.7%-19% · '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
4.3%Median federal debt $8,028 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $25,073 (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.
-19%
Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley · retention fell
78.0% → 63.2%
+277%
Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley · median debt rose
$3,445 → $13,000
-100%
Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley · cohort default rate fell
14.8% → 0.0%
+27%
Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley · pell share rose
49.5% → 62.7%
+22%
Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley · earnings_median_10yr rose
$20,600 → $25,073
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 Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley
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
-$320,857
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $20,278
- HS-only baseline · PA
- $38,100
- 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 Pennsylvania
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley graduates earn $X” — not “Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Empire Beauty School-Lehigh Valley 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.