-18%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Paul Mitchell the School-Denver fell 18% between 2021 and 2024 (259 → 213).
Colorado · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Paul Mitchell the School-Denver
Lakewood, Colorado. 231 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Paul Mitchell the School-Denver
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 Paul Mitchell the School-Denver fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.9% → 0.0%).
+48%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Paul Mitchell the School-Denver rose 48% between 2021 and 2024 (64.7% → 95.7%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Colorado
Each tile compares this institution to the Colorado median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Colorado median $43,242$28,859
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry75.9%
Colorado median 55.5%$6,788-2% · '14→'20
At program completion231+92% · '13→'24
latest IPEDS88.2%+21% · '13→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 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.
+21%
Paul Mitchell the School-Denver · retention rose
79.0% → 95.7%
+51%
Paul Mitchell the School-Denver · undergrad enrollment rose
111 → 213
-100%
Paul Mitchell the School-Denver · cohort default rate fell
20.0% → 0.0%
+936%
Paul Mitchell the School-Denver · pell share rose
0.0% → 46.8%
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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Paul Mitchell the School-Denver
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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$191,120
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $14,748
- HS-only baseline · CO
- $40,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
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 Colorado
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Paul Mitchell the School-Denver graduates earn $X” — not “Paul Mitchell the School-Denver makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Paul Mitchell the School-Denver 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.