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Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center

Culpeper, Virginia. 67 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.

ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags at Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center

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.

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER+343%

150%-time completion

150%-time completion at Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center rose 343% between 2007 and 2009 (16.7% → 73.8%).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER-100%

3-year cohort default rate

3-year cohort default rate at Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (9.0% → 0.0%).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER+36%

Undergraduate enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment at Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center rose 36% between 2021 and 2024 (25 → 34).

SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT

The numbers, vs. Virginia

Each tile compares this institution to the Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
+20% · 6→8y
Virginia median $44,813
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 6Y
$17,548
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry
COMPLETION · 150%
63.6%+75% · '05→'09
Virginia median 50.7%
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$9,833
At program completion
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
67+36% · '05→'24
latest IPEDS
RETENTION
26.8%+400% · '05→'24
first-time, full-time
ADMISSION RATE
latest cohort
IN-STATE TUITION
annual
SECTION 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).

ALL FEDERALLY AIDED STUDENTS · TAX-RECORD EARNINGSVINTAGE 2025-05
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.

UNDERGRAD · 2005202434
67920052024
Undergraduate enrollment.IPEDS EF
COMPLETION 150% · 2005200973.8%
74%17%20052009
150%-time completion rate.IPEDS GR
COMPLETION · 150% · 20052009+75%

Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center · completion · 150% rose

42.1% → 73.8%

RETENTION · 20052024+400%

Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center · retention rose

20.0% → 100.0%

COHORT DEFAULT RATE · 20112024-100%

Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center · cohort default rate fell

20.0% → 0.0%

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome at Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center

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 Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center(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.

CAUSAL DISCIPLINE

Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center graduates earn $X” — not “Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center makes you earn $X”

Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center 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.

Methodology →