-16%
First-year retention
First-year retention at East Texas Cosmetology College fell 16% between 2023 and 2024 (100.0% → 84.0%).
Texas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
East Texas Cosmetology College
Lufkin, Texas. 39 undergraduate students. 0 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at East Texas Cosmetology College
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.
+31%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at East Texas Cosmetology College rose 31% between 2023 and 2024 (39 → 51).
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.
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Texas median $39,639—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry77.3%
Texas median 51.8%—
At program completion39+31% · '23→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%-16% · '23→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
-16%
East Texas Cosmetology College · retention fell
100.0% → 84.0%
+758%
East Texas Cosmetology College · pell share rose
0.0% → 37.9%
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
“East Texas Cosmetology College graduates earn $X” — not “East Texas Cosmetology College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending East Texas Cosmetology College 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.