Wisconsin · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates

Advanced College of Cosmetology

Waupun, Wisconsin. 34 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.

ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags at Advanced College of Cosmetology

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 WORSE-11%

Undergraduate enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment at Advanced College of Cosmetology fell 11% between 2021 and 2024 (27 → 24).

SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT

The numbers, vs. Wisconsin

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

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
+6% · 6→8y
Wisconsin median $46,297
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 6Y
$21,050
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry
COMPLETION · 150%
83.3%
Wisconsin median 58.4%
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$9,819+7% · '13→'14
At program completion
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
34-37% · '11→'24
latest IPEDS
RETENTION
92.3%-6% · '11→'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 · 2011202424
512120112024
Undergraduate enrollment.IPEDS EF
MEDIAN DEBT · 20132014$11,600
$11,600$10,88020132014
Median federal student debt at exit.SCORECARD
PELL SHARE · 20112024-24%

Advanced College of Cosmetology · pell share fell

55.6% → 42.5%

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome at Advanced College of Cosmetology

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 Advanced College of Cosmetology(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

Advanced College of Cosmetology graduates earn $X” — not “Advanced College of Cosmetology makes you earn $X”

Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Advanced College of Cosmetology 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 →