Academy of
Beauty Professionals
For-profit College in Appleton, WI. Median 10-year earnings $25,117.
Students who entered Academy of Beauty Professionals reach a median of $25,117 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $6,333 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. 75% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. The 9:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 113 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price is not reported for this institution, which means there is no single what-you-pay number to compare — the aid participation rates below are the closest available proxy. Grant aid is limited — 36% of students receive any. 39% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 8 students
Federal student loans went to 44 of these 113 students, totalling $278,741 — an average of $6,335 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Outagamie County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Accreditation Issue
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)