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American Beauty School

For-profit College in Bronx, NY. Median 10-year earnings $21,111.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
American Beauty School · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$21,111
Median debt at grad
$3,500
Federal loan default
0%

Students who entered American Beauty School reach a median of $21,111 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $3,500 — modest by four-year standards.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.17 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
83%
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
16:1

This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. First-year retention of 83% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. A 16:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. 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. This is a small school — 222 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$12,492
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
50%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
39%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 222 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

At $12,492 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. About 50% get grants averaging $4,953, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. About 39% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.

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.

% receiving grants
63%
Average grant
$7,595

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 8 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 $12,492
$30–48k —
$48–75k —
$75–110k —
$110k+ —

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 86 of these 222 students, totalling $581,467 — an average of $6,761 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Bronx County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$2,529/mo
1 bedroom
$2,655/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,910/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

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How we evaluate American Beauty School

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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