-35%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy fell 35% between 2021 and 2024 (49 → 32).
Maryland · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy
Salisbury, Maryland. 43 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy
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.
-33%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy fell 33% between 2021 and 2024 (75.0% → 50.0%).
-22pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 22 pp at Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy vs the 2003–2007 baseline (60.0% vs 81.9%).
+10%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy rose 10% between 2017 and 2020 ($15.0k → $16.5k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Maryland
Each tile compares this institution to the Maryland median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$25,426+35% · 6→10y
Maryland median $46,719$18,809
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry60.0%+47% · '00→'09
Maryland median 52.1%$9,833+529% · '97→'20
At program completion43
latest IPEDS66.7%-49% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—+48% · '02→'11
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
5.2%Median federal debt $9,833 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $25,426 (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.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+47%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · completion · 150% rose
61.7% → 90.7%
-49%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · retention fell
99.0% → 50.0%
+529%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · median debt rose
$2,625 → $16,500
-100%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · cohort default rate fell
16.6% → 0.0%
+54%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · pell share rose
40.4% → 62.3%
+32%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · earnings_median_10yr rose
$19,300 → $25,426
+46%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · earnings_median_8yr rose
$17,900 → $26,064
+27%
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy · earnings_median_6yr rose
$14,800 → $18,809
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 Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy
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
-$386,118
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $25,617
- HS-only baseline · MD
- $41,100
- 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 Maryland
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy graduates earn $X” — not “Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy 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.