-48%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Mid Cities Barber College fell 48% between 2021 and 2024 (42 → 22).
Texas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Mid Cities Barber College
Grand Prairie, Texas. 44 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Mid Cities Barber 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.
+28%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Mid Cities Barber College rose 28% between 2021 and 2024 (60.0% → 76.9%).
-25%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Mid Cities Barber College fell 25% between 2006 and 2009 (66.2% → 49.4%).
-15pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 15 pp at Mid Cities Barber College vs the 2003–2007 baseline (58.1% vs 73.3%).
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.
$24,664+21% · 8→10y
Texas median $39,639—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry58.1%-34% · '01→'09
Texas median 51.8%—
At program completion44-19% · '98→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%+234% · '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 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.
-34%
Mid Cities Barber College · completion · 150% fell
75.0% → 49.4%
+234%
Mid Cities Barber College · retention rose
23.0% → 76.9%
-27%
Mid Cities Barber College · pell share fell
63.8% → 46.4%
-39%
Mid Cities Barber College · earnings_median_6yr fell
$18,000 → $11,000
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Mid Cities Barber College
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 Mid Cities Barber College(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
“Mid Cities Barber College graduates earn $X” — not “Mid Cities Barber College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Mid Cities Barber 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.