-15%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Sierra College of Beauty are 15% below 6-year earnings ($21.7k → $18.5k).
California · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Sierra College of Beauty
Merced, California. 245 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Sierra College of Beauty
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.
+4305%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Sierra College of Beauty rose 4305% between 2009 and 2010 (2.3% → 100.0%).
+113%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Sierra College of Beauty rose 113% between 2007 and 2010 (77 → 164).
+11%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Sierra College of Beauty rose 11% between 2007 and 2010 (89.7% → 100.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. California
Each tile compares this institution to the California median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$18,519-15% · 6→10y
California median $42,588$21,701
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry84.4%±0% · '98→'10
California median 61.3%—
At program completion245+198% · '96→'10
latest IPEDS85.2%+4% · '04→'10
first-time, full-time—+4% · '06→'09
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.
+4305%
Sierra College of Beauty · completion · 100% rose
2.3% → 100.0%
+55%
Sierra College of Beauty · undergrad enrollment rose
55 → 164
-47%
Sierra College of Beauty · pell share fell
92.1% → 48.6%
+39%
Sierra College of Beauty · earnings_median_8yr rose
$14,300 → $20,222
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 California
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Sierra College of Beauty graduates earn $X” — not “Sierra College of Beauty makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Sierra College of Beauty 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.