CIP 1204 · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma · Queen City College

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services at Queen City College

Federal outcomes for undergraduate certificate or diploma graduates of Queen City College. 59 completers in the most recent 4-year window (55 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $23,571.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$23,571
Tennessee CIP-4 median $21,509
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$19,480
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$5,500
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
59
55 most recent year
DEBT-TO-EARNINGS

What this program's debt costs its graduates

Annual debt service as a share of median 5-year-post-completion earnings, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation.

This program at Queen City College

3.1%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $5,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $23,571.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

3.4%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the Tennessee CIP 1204 peer-median earnings $21,509.

SECTION 02 · PROGRAM HISTORY

How this program has shifted

Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.

DEBT · 20142018$5,500
$9,500$5,50020142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201959
735520142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142018-42%

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services at Queen City College · debt_median fell

9,500 → 5,500

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome of this 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. Selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. This is an 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 Queen City College(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.

SUPPRESSION & SELECTION

What this page tells you, and what it doesn't

Earnings are median annual earnings of federally aided students who completed this program at this institution, drawn from federal tax records. They describe cohorts. They do not predict your earnings, and they do not claim that this program caused those outcomes — selection effects (who enrolls, who finishes, what fields they enter) dominate cross-program differences. Em-dashes mean the federal data was suppressed because the cohort was below the 30-student floor.

Methodology →