-21%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at GA Beauty & Barber School fell 21% between 2021 and 2024 (216 → 171).
Texas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
GA Beauty & Barber School
McAllen, Texas. 199 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at GA Beauty & Barber School
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.
+19%
First-year retention
First-year retention at GA Beauty & Barber School rose 19% between 2021 and 2024 (71.4% → 84.8%).
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-entry43.1%
Texas median 51.8%$2,400
At program completion199+47% · '18→'24
latest IPEDS77.1%+82% · '19→'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.
+82%
GA Beauty & Barber School · retention rose
46.7% → 84.8%
+28%
GA Beauty & Barber School · undergrad enrollment rose
116 → 171
+743%
GA Beauty & Barber School · pell share rose
0.0% → 37.2%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at GA Beauty & Barber School
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 GA Beauty & Barber School(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 Texas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“GA Beauty & Barber School graduates earn $X” — not “GA Beauty & Barber School makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending GA Beauty & Barber School 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.