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For-profit College

Arkansas Beauty
School-Little Rock

For-profit College in Little Rock, AR. Median 10-year earnings $18,078.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Arkansas Beauty School-Little Rock · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$18,078
Median debt at grad
$6,333
Federal loan default
0%

Ten-year median earnings of $18,078 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 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.

Green Flags
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
43%
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. Retention is weak: only 43% of full-time first-years return, so roughly three in five leave after one year. The student-faculty ratio is 20:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$23,055
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
53%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
100%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 138 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price after grant aid is $23,055 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. 53% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,040 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 100% 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.

% receiving grants
100%
Average grant
$3,602

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 22 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 $23,055
$30–48k
$48–75k
$75–110k
$110k+

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 138 of these 138 students, totalling $417,861 — an average of $3,028 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

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

Studio
$984/mo
1 bedroom
$989/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,147/mo

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

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How we evaluate Arkansas Beauty School-Little Rock

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