+74%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at L Makeup Institute rose 74% between 2018 and 2020 ($3.9k → $6.7k).
Nevada · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
L Makeup Institute
Las Vegas, Nevada. 95 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at L Makeup 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 L Makeup Institute fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.2% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Nevada
Each tile compares this institution to the Nevada median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Nevada median $39,289—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry70.7%
Nevada median 62.5%$6,702+74% · '18→'20
At program completion95+33% · '17→'24
latest IPEDS82.5%+2% · '20→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
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.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+74%
L Makeup Institute · median debt rose
$3,880 → $6,746
+1020%
L Makeup Institute · pell share rose
0.0% → 51.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at L Makeup 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%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at L Makeup Institute(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 Nevada
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“L Makeup Institute graduates earn $X” — not “L Makeup Institute makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending L Makeup 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.