-22%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Academy of Hair Technology fell 22% between 2021 and 2024 (74 → 58).
South Carolina · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Academy of Hair Technology
Greenville, South Carolina. 95 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Academy of Hair Technology
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 Academy of Hair Technology fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (13.9% → 0.0%).
-10pp
150%-time completion
150%-time completion fell 10 pp at Academy of Hair Technology vs the 2003–2007 baseline (57.1% vs 67.3%).
-42%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Academy of Hair Technology fell 42% between 2017 and 2020 ($5.8k → $3.4k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. South Carolina
Each tile compares this institution to the South Carolina median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$22,893+34% · 6→10y
South Carolina median $39,325$17,132
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry57.1%+0% · '97→'09
South Carolina median 44.4%$2,750+28% · '97→'20
At program completion95+35% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%+39% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—+9% · '01→'08
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
1.6%Median federal debt $2,750 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $22,893 (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.
+39%
Academy of Hair Technology · retention rose
72.0% → 100.0%
+28%
Academy of Hair Technology · median debt rose
$2,669 → $3,417
-100%
Academy of Hair Technology · cohort default rate fell
19.7% → 0.0%
+50%
Academy of Hair Technology · earnings_median_10yr rose
$15,300 → $22,893
+74%
Academy of Hair Technology · earnings_median_8yr rose
$16,000 → $27,769
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 Academy of Hair Technology
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 Academy of Hair Technology(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 South Carolina
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Academy of Hair Technology graduates earn $X” — not “Academy of Hair Technology makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Academy of Hair Technology 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.