+55%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Culinary Institute Inc rose 55% between 2006 and 2009 ($5.1k → $7.9k).
Texas · Private for-profit · Predominantly associate's
Culinary Institute Inc
Houston, Texas. 334 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Culinary Institute Inc
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.
+35%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Culinary Institute Inc rose 35% between 2021 and 2024 (24.7% → 33.3%).
-22pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 22 pp at Culinary Institute Inc vs the 2004–2007 baseline (57.7% vs 80.0%).
+30%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Culinary Institute Inc are 30% above 6-year earnings ($24.8k → $32.2k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Texas
Each tile compares this institution to the Texas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$32,195+30% · 6→10y
Texas median $39,639$24,831
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry57.7%+33% · '04→'09
Texas median 51.8%$12,167+79% · '04→'09
At program completion334+469% · '04→'24
latest IPEDS18.2%-61% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—±0% · '04→'05
latest cohort$18,539+11% · '11→'24
out-of-state $18,539SECTION 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
5.0%Median federal debt $12,167 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $32,195 (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.
+33%
Culinary Institute Inc · completion · 150% rose
62.3% → 82.9%
-61%
Culinary Institute Inc · retention fell
85.0% → 33.3%
+129%
Culinary Institute Inc · undergrad enrollment rose
55 → 313
+79%
Culinary Institute Inc · median debt rose
$4,417 → $7,895
+43%
Culinary Institute Inc · pell share rose
39.5% → 56.4%
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
2 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 Culinary Institute Inc
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
-$109,011
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $26,106
- HS-only baseline · TX
- $37,300
- 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 Texas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Culinary Institute Inc graduates earn $X” — not “Culinary Institute Inc makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Culinary Institute Inc 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.