-78%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Reflections Academy of Beauty fell 78% between 2021 and 2024 (23.1% → 5.0%).
Illinois · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Reflections Academy of Beauty
Decatur, Illinois. 29 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Reflections Academy 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.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Reflections Academy of Beauty fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (9.0% → 0.0%).
+19%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Reflections Academy of Beauty rose 19% between 2017 and 2020 ($13.8k → $16.5k).
+25%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Reflections Academy of Beauty rose 25% between 2021 and 2024 (32 → 40).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Illinois
Each tile compares this institution to the Illinois median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Illinois median $40,810—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry52.2%
Illinois median 53.3%$9,500+19% · '17→'20
At program completion29+74% · '12→'24
latest IPEDS40.0%-95% · '12→'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.
-95%
Reflections Academy of Beauty · retention fell
100.0% → 5.0%
-46%
Reflections Academy of Beauty · pell share fell
58.1% → 31.4%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Reflections Academy of Beauty
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 Reflections Academy of Beauty(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.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Illinois
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Reflections Academy of Beauty graduates earn $X” — not “Reflections Academy of Beauty makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Reflections Academy 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.