American Beauty College
For-profit College in West Covina, CA. Median 10-year earnings $22,481.
Ten-year median earnings of $22,481 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $5,430, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.24 — 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. 94% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The part-time picture is harder: 67% return, against 94% full-time. A 25:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 483 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $24,986 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($24,253 versus $29,804), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 79% of students at an average of $5,046. Most students borrow — 59% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 88 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 | $24,253 |
| $30–48k | $23,078 |
| $48–75k | $27,453 |
| $75–110k | $30,222 |
| $110k+ | $29,804 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 285 of these 483 students, totalling $1,626,862 — an average of $5,708 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)