-44%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin fell 44% between 2021 and 2024 (543 → 305).
Texas · Private for-profit · Predominantly associate's
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin
Austin, Texas. 372 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin
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.
+28%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin rose 28% between 2021 and 2024 (59.0% → 75.7%).
-31%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 31% at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin vs the 2018–2022 baseline (372 vs 538).
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.
$36,330+26% · 6→10y
Texas median $39,639$28,810
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry57.4%+163% · '05→'09
Texas median 51.8%$12,000-8% · '05→'09
At program completion372+3289% · '04→'24
latest IPEDS74.8%
first-time, full-time—+11% · '04→'12
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
4.4%Median federal debt $12,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $36,330 (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.
+163%
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin · completion · 150% rose
28.6% → 75.0%
+1515%
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin · retention rose
0.0% → 75.7%
+148%
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin · undergrad enrollment rose
9 → 305
+80%
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin · pell share rose
25.4% → 45.7%
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 Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin
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
-$155,159
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $21,497
- 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.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Texas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin graduates earn $X” — not “Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin 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.