+302%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine rose 302% between 2006 and 2009 ($6.6k → $26.6k).
New Jersey · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine
Bloomfield, New Jersey. 8 undergraduate students. 3 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine
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 Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.3% → 0.0%).
-83%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine fell 83% between 2021 and 2024 (12 → 2).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New Jersey
Each tile compares this institution to the New Jersey median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$48,962
New Jersey median $46,742—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
New Jersey median 62.0%—+326% · '05→'09
At program completion8-98% · '05→'24
latest IPEDS—
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.
-61%
Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine · undergrad enrollment fell
123 → 2
+326%
Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine · median debt rose
$6,248 → $26,625
-100%
Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine · cohort default rate fell
6.2% → 0.0%
-100%
Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine · pell share fell
16.4% → 0.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine
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 Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems · Master's Degree at Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine(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 Jersey
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine graduates earn $X” — not “Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine 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.