Texas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates

Alamo City Barber College

San Antonio, Texas. 180 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.

ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags at Alamo City Barber College

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.

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING WORSE-33%

Undergraduate enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment at Alamo City Barber College fell 33% between 2021 and 2024 (169 → 114).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER+101%

First-year retention

First-year retention at Alamo City Barber College rose 101% between 2021 and 2024 (35.3% → 71.0%).

SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT

The numbers, vs. Texas

Each tile compares this institution to the Texas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
Texas median $39,639
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 6Y
$17,214
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry
COMPLETION · 150%
55.7%
Texas median 51.8%
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$5,281
At program completion
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
180+1% · '14→'24
latest IPEDS
RETENTION
72.7%+39% · '14→'24
first-time, full-time
ADMISSION RATE
latest cohort
IN-STATE TUITION
annual
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.

UNDERGRAD · 20142024114
45211320142024
Undergraduate enrollment.IPEDS EF
RETENTION · 20142024+39%

Alamo City Barber College · retention rose

51.0% → 71.0%

PELL SHARE · 20142024+283%

Alamo City Barber College · pell share rose

21.5% → 82.5%

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 Alamo City Barber College

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
-$375,104
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
graduationyear 0year 39
Cost per year
$13,439
HS-only baseline · TX
$37,300
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.

CAUSAL DISCIPLINE

Alamo City Barber College graduates earn $X” — not “Alamo City Barber College makes you earn $X”

Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Alamo City Barber College 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.

Methodology →