-36%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Fosters Cosmetology College fell 36% between 2021 and 2024 (36 → 23).
Mississippi · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Fosters Cosmetology College
Ripley, Mississippi. 22 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Fosters Cosmetology College
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 Fosters Cosmetology College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (13.8% → 0.0%).
-22%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Fosters Cosmetology College fell 22% between 2015 and 2018 ($12.2k → $9.5k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Mississippi
Each tile compares this institution to the Mississippi median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—-29% · 6→8y
Mississippi median $33,017$23,011
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry78.3%+29% · '97→'09
Mississippi median 46.9%$6,044-22% · '15→'18
At program completion22-61% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS82.6%+41% · '04→'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 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.
+29%
Fosters Cosmetology College · completion · 150% rose
41.5% → 53.6%
+41%
Fosters Cosmetology College · retention rose
60.0% → 84.6%
-22%
Fosters Cosmetology College · median debt fell
$12,250 → $9,500
+34%
Fosters Cosmetology College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$11,200 → $16,312
+62%
Fosters Cosmetology College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$13,700 → $23,011
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Fosters Cosmetology College
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 Fosters Cosmetology College(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 Mississippi
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Fosters Cosmetology College graduates earn $X” — not “Fosters Cosmetology College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Fosters Cosmetology College 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.