+68%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Designer Barber & Stylist School rose 68% between 2016 and 2019 ($9.8k → $16.5k).
Arkansas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Designer Barber & Stylist School
Fort Smith, Arkansas. 91 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Designer Barber & Stylist 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Designer Barber & Stylist School fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (5.2% → 0.0%).
+13%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Designer Barber & Stylist School rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 (84 → 95).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Arkansas
Each tile compares this institution to the Arkansas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—-18% · 6→8y
Arkansas median $34,871$17,534
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry80.6%
Arkansas median 47.1%$10,203+74% · '14→'19
At program completion91+90% · '14→'24
latest IPEDS90.0%+14% · '14→'24
first-time, full-time—+33% · '19→'20
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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+14%
Designer Barber & Stylist School · retention rose
87.5% → 100.0%
+23%
Designer Barber & Stylist School · undergrad enrollment rose
50 → 95
+74%
Designer Barber & Stylist School · median debt rose
$9,500 → $16,500
-100%
Designer Barber & Stylist School · cohort default rate fell
10.0% → 0.0%
-34%
Designer Barber & Stylist School · pell share fell
78.7% → 51.7%
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Arkansas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Designer Barber & Stylist School graduates earn $X” — not “Designer Barber & Stylist School makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Designer Barber & Stylist 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.