-23pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 23 pp at The Beauty Institute-Ambler vs the 2003–2007 baseline (59.8% vs 82.8%).
Pennsylvania · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
The Beauty Institute-Ambler
Ambler, Pennsylvania. 152 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at The Beauty Institute-Ambler
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 The Beauty Institute-Ambler fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (4.2% → 0.0%).
+17%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at The Beauty Institute-Ambler rose 17% between 2021 and 2024 (137 → 160).
+11%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at The Beauty Institute-Ambler rose 11% between 2006 and 2009 (70.0% → 77.9%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Pennsylvania
Each tile compares this institution to the Pennsylvania median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$24,785+25% · 6→10y
Pennsylvania median $49,859$19,887
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry59.8%-11% · '97→'09
Pennsylvania median 66.1%$8,028+269% · '98→'20
At program completion152+202% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS75.7%-22% · '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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
4.3%Median federal debt $8,028 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $24,785 (10y after entry).
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.
-22%
The Beauty Institute-Ambler · retention fell
94.0% → 73.5%
+54%
The Beauty Institute-Ambler · undergrad enrollment rose
53 → 160
+269%
The Beauty Institute-Ambler · median debt rose
$2,600 → $9,583
+68%
The Beauty Institute-Ambler · pell share rose
50.0% → 84.2%
+58%
The Beauty Institute-Ambler · earnings_median_10yr rose
$15,700 → $24,785
+29%
The Beauty Institute-Ambler · earnings_median_8yr rose
$14,700 → $19,026
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 The Beauty Institute-Ambler
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
-$301,683
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $17,157
- HS-only baseline · PA
- $38,100
- 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.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Pennsylvania
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“The Beauty Institute-Ambler graduates earn $X” — not “The Beauty Institute-Ambler makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending The Beauty Institute-Ambler 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.