-38%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Keene Beauty Academy fell 38% between 2021 and 2024 (100.0% → 62.5%).
New Hampshire · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Keene Beauty Academy
Keene, New Hampshire. 93 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Keene Beauty Academy
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 Keene Beauty Academy fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (7.7% → 0.0%).
+10%
10-year median earnings
10-year median earnings at Keene Beauty Academy rose 10% between 2013 and 2014 ($20.3k → $22.4k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New Hampshire
Each tile compares this institution to the New Hampshire median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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New Hampshire median $49,690—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry71.4%+19% · '97→'09
New Hampshire median 58.4%$8,371+48% · '97→'20
At program completion93+61% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS57.7%-31% · '04→'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.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-31%
Keene Beauty Academy · retention fell
90.0% → 62.5%
+48%
Keene Beauty Academy · median debt rose
$6,625 → $9,833
-100%
Keene Beauty Academy · cohort default rate fell
18.9% → 0.0%
-27%
Keene Beauty Academy · pell share fell
50.7% → 37.2%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Keene Beauty Academy
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 Keene Beauty Academy(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 New Hampshire
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Keene Beauty Academy graduates earn $X” — not “Keene Beauty Academy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Keene Beauty Academy 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.