-7pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 7 pp at Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute vs the 2003–2007 baseline (62.5% vs 69.1%).
Massachusetts · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute
Lowell, Massachusetts. 59 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute
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 Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.2% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Massachusetts
Each tile compares this institution to the Massachusetts median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Massachusetts median $56,022$44,170
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry62.5%+10% · '97→'09
Massachusetts median 66.5%$5,500+205% · '97→'20
At program completion59+18% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS66.7%-8% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time—-11% · '01→'02
latest cohort—+5% · '02→'03
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.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+205%
Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute · median debt rose
$2,625 → $7,994
-100%
Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute · cohort default rate fell
6.0% → 0.0%
+60%
Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute · pell share rose
26.4% → 42.4%
+132%
Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute · earnings_median_6yr rose
$19,000 → $44,170
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 Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute
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
-$183,158
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $16,925
- HS-only baseline · MA
- $42,600
- 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 Massachusetts
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute graduates earn $X” — not “Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute 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.