-15%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Huntington School of Beauty Culture fell 15% between 2006 and 2009 (40.9% → 34.6%).
West Virginia · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Huntington School of Beauty Culture
Huntington, West Virginia. 115 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Huntington School of Beauty Culture
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.
+101%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at Huntington School of Beauty Culture are 101% above 8-year earnings ($12.3k → $24.8k).
+11%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Huntington School of Beauty Culture rose 11% between 2021 and 2024 (100 → 111).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. West Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the West Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$24,794+101% · 8→10y
West Virginia median $37,714—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry70.6%-43% · '97→'09
West Virginia median 61.2%—+290% · '97→'12
At program completion115
latest IPEDS58.3%+29% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—±0% · '02→'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 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.
-43%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · completion · 150% fell
60.3% → 34.6%
+29%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · retention rose
62.0% → 80.0%
+56%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · undergrad enrollment rose
0 → 111
+290%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · median debt rose
$2,625 → $10,250
-100%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · cohort default rate fell
43.2% → 0.0%
+43%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · pell share rose
36.4% → 52.1%
+81%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · earnings_median_10yr rose
$12,700 → $24,794
+28%
Huntington School of Beauty Culture · earnings_median_6yr rose
$10,000 → $14,200
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Huntington School of Beauty Culture
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 Huntington School of Beauty Culture(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 West Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Huntington School of Beauty Culture graduates earn $X” — not “Huntington School of Beauty Culture makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Huntington School of Beauty Culture 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.