-27%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy fell 27% between 2021 and 2024 (319 → 233).
Illinois · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy
Chicago, Illinois. 253 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy
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 Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.3% → 0.0%).
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.
$32,349+19% · 6→10y
Illinois median $40,810$27,295
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
Illinois median 53.3%$5,536+28% · '05→'20
At program completion253-21% · '05→'24
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
2.3%Median federal debt $5,536 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $32,349 (10y after entry).
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.
-21%
Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy · undergrad enrollment fell
295 → 233
+28%
Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy · median debt rose
$6,188 → $7,916
-100%
Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy · cohort default rate fell
34.4% → 0.0%
+30%
Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy · pell share rose
45.6% → 59.3%
+24%
Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy · earnings_median_10yr rose
$26,000 → $32,349
+27%
Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy · earnings_median_8yr rose
$24,500 → $31,127
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.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy
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 Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy(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
“Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy graduates earn $X” — not “Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Soma Institute-The National School of Clinical Massage Therapy 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.