-18%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Strand College of Hair Design are 18% below 6-year earnings ($26.0k → $21.3k).
South Carolina · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Strand College of Hair Design
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. 103 undergraduate students. 3 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Strand College of Hair Design
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%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Strand College of Hair Design rose 57% between 2006 and 2009 (37.3% → 58.7%).
-17%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Strand College of Hair Design fell 16% between 2021 and 2024 (98.5% → 82.2%).
-14%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Strand College of Hair Design fell 14% between 2021 and 2024 (81 → 70).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. South Carolina
Each tile compares this institution to the South Carolina median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$21,301-18% · 6→10y
South Carolina median $39,325$25,974
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry80.0%-31% · '99→'09
South Carolina median 44.4%$6,333+141% · '02→'20
At program completion103
latest IPEDS87.0%-4% · '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
4.0%Median federal debt $6,333 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $21,301 (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.
-31%
Strand College of Hair Design · completion · 150% fell
84.6% → 58.7%
+35%
Strand College of Hair Design · undergrad enrollment rose
0 → 70
+141%
Strand College of Hair Design · median debt rose
$2,625 → $6,333
-100%
Strand College of Hair Design · cohort default rate fell
11.1% → 0.0%
-21%
Strand College of Hair Design · pell share fell
47.5% → 37.3%
+50%
Strand College of Hair Design · earnings_median_10yr rose
$13,800 → $21,301
+46%
Strand College of Hair Design · earnings_median_8yr rose
$10,500 → $17,359
+77%
Strand College of Hair Design · earnings_median_6yr rose
$14,400 → $25,974
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Strand College of Hair Design
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 Strand College of Hair Design(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 South Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Strand College of Hair Design graduates earn $X” — not “Strand College of Hair Design makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Strand College of Hair Design 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.