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For-profit College

American College
of Barbering

For-profit College in Louisville, KY.

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American College of Barbering · Campus
Median debt at grad
$14,143
Federal loan default
0%
Green Flags
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
65%
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
20:1

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. 65% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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

Average net price
$22,379
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
43%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
47%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 119 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Students pay an average of $22,379 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($21,473 versus $25,618), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 43% of students receive any. 47% 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.

% receiving grants
37%
Average grant
$4,305

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 51 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 $21,473
$30–48k $22,571
$48–75k $22,831
$75–110k $25,618
$110k+ $25,618

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 56 of these 119 students, totalling $353,950 — an average of $6,321 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

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

Studio
$966/mo
1 bedroom
$1,047/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,272/mo

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

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How we evaluate American College of Barbering

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