-20%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences fell 20% between 2021 and 2024 (102 → 82).
Maryland · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences
Rockville, Maryland. 74 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences
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.
+84%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences are 84% above the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($46.7k vs $25.4k).
+77%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences are 77% above 6-year earnings ($26.4k → $46.7k).
+11%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 (76.9% → 85.7%).
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.
$46,719+77% · 6→10y
Maryland median $46,719$26,378
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
Maryland median 52.1%$5,500+48% · '10→'20
At program completion74+34% · '09→'24
latest IPEDS—+3% · '14→'24
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
1.6%Median federal debt $5,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $46,719 (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.
+48%
Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences · median debt rose
$3,715 → $5,500
+128%
Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences · pell share rose
9.8% → 22.2%
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.
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 10
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences
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 Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences(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 Maryland
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences graduates earn $X” — not “Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences 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.