Award Beauty School
For-profit College in Hagerstown, MD. Median 10-year earnings $18,172.
Students who entered Award Beauty School reach a median of $18,172 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $13,000.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.72 — elevated (above 0.60)
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. Just 55% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. At 25:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 203 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $20,202 annually once grants are applied. Net price varies modestly by income — $20,466 at $0–30k against $22,124 at $48–75k — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid is limited — 37% of students receive any. Federal borrowing reaches 41% of students.
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 · 83 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 | $20,466 |
| $30–48k | $20,702 |
| $48–75k | $22,124 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 84 of these 203 students, totalling $242,566 — an average of $2,888 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Washington County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026