Montana · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates

Butte Academy of Beauty Culture

Butte, Montana. 13 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.

ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags at Butte Academy of Beauty Culture

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.

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING WORSE+62%

Median federal debt at exit

Median federal debt at exit at Butte Academy of Beauty Culture rose 62% between 2006 and 2009 ($4.6k → $7.5k).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER+62%

Undergraduate enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment at Butte Academy of Beauty Culture rose 62% between 2006 and 2009 (29 → 47).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING WORSE-15%

150%-time completion

150%-time completion at Butte Academy of Beauty Culture fell 15% between 2006 and 2009 (58.6% → 50.0%).

SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT

The numbers, vs. Montana

Each tile compares this institution to the Montana median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
-17% · 6→8y
Montana median $40,738
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 6Y
$20,738
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry
COMPLETION · 150%
82.3%-31% · '97→'09
Montana median 46.1%
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$5,500+65% · '97→'09
At program completion
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
13+47% · '96→'09
latest IPEDS
RETENTION
33.3%+8% · '04→'09
first-time, full-time
ADMISSION RATE
latest cohort
IN-STATE TUITION
annual
SECTION 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).

ALL FEDERALLY AIDED STUDENTS · TAX-RECORD EARNINGSVINTAGE 2025-05
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.

UNDERGRAD · 1996200947
472219962009
Undergraduate enrollment.IPEDS EF
COMPLETION 150% · 1997200950.0%
80%44%19972009
150%-time completion rate.IPEDS GR
MEDIAN DEBT · 19972009$7,500
$7,500$3,31319972009
Median federal student debt at exit.SCORECARD
COMPLETION · 150% · 19972009-31%

Butte Academy of Beauty Culture · completion · 150% fell

72.0% → 50.0%

MEDIAN DEBT · 19972009+65%

Butte Academy of Beauty Culture · median debt rose

$4,552 → $7,500

PELL SHARE · 20082009+50%

Butte Academy of Beauty Culture · pell share rose

39.7% → 59.4%

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 Butte Academy of Beauty Culture

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
-$312,007
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$13,052
HS-only baseline · MT
$35,800
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.

CAUSAL DISCIPLINE

Butte Academy of Beauty Culture graduates earn $X” — not “Butte Academy of Beauty Culture makes you earn $X”

Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Butte Academy of Beauty Culture 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.

Methodology →