Altoona Beauty
School Inc
For-profit College in Altoona, PA. Median 10-year earnings $24,246.
Students who entered Altoona Beauty School Inc reach a median of $24,246 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $4,750 — 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 0.20 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
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. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 148 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $23,645 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($23,095 versus $30,490), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 22% of students receive any. Borrowing is widespread: 57% take federal loans.
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 · 15 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $23,095 |
| $30–48k | $23,095 |
| $48–75k | $24,745 |
| $75–110k | $28,134 |
| $110k+ | $30,490 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 85 of these 148 students, totalling $422,891 — an average of $4,975 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Blair County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026