-35%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 35% at Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez vs the 2003–2007 baseline (237 vs 362).
Puerto Rico · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 237 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez
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.
+44%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez are 44% above 6-year earnings ($10.3k → $14.8k).
+24%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez rose 24% between 2006 and 2009 (57.0% → 70.4%).
+16%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez rose 16% between 2006 and 2009 (67.0% → 77.8%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Puerto Rico
Each tile compares this institution to the Puerto Rico median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$14,827+44% · 6→10y
Puerto Rico median $23,370$10,292
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry86.0%+4% · '98→'09
Puerto Rico median 52.5%—
At program completion237+137% · '97→'09
latest IPEDS75.0%+159% · '04→'09
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 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.
+159%
Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez · retention rose
30.0% → 77.8%
+122%
Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez · undergrad enrollment rose
178 → 422
+46%
Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez · pell share rose
49.4% → 72.0%
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez
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
-$274,136
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $7,101
- HS-only baseline · PR
- $22,400
- 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 Puerto Rico
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez graduates earn $X” — not “Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Emma's Beauty Academy-Mayaguez 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.