-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.7% → 0.0%).
Tennessee · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee. 189 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis
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.
+15%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis rose 15% between 2021 and 2024 (66.7% → 76.9%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Tennessee
Each tile compares this institution to the Tennessee median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$25,306+15% · 6→10y
Tennessee median $38,880$21,917
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry60.7%
Tennessee median 57.6%$9,833+27% · '09→'20
At program completion189+1% · '09→'24
latest IPEDS42.9%-7% · '09→'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
5.2%Median federal debt $9,833 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $25,306 (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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+27%
Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis · median debt rose
$7,770 → $9,833
-100%
Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis · cohort default rate fell
18.1% → 0.0%
+267%
Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis · pell share rose
17.8% → 65.2%
+82%
Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis · earnings_median_10yr rose
$13,000 → $25,306
+69%
Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis · earnings_median_8yr rose
$14,300 → $24,720
+48%
Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis · earnings_median_6yr rose
$14,700 → $21,917
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 Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis
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
-$281,113
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $20,861
- HS-only baseline · TN
- $34,600
- 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 Tennessee
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis graduates earn $X” — not “Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Paul Mitchell the School-Memphis 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.