Edge Academy
of Beauty
For-profit College in Manchester, KY.
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. Retention of 67% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 20:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 70 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 70 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $14,094 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Net price varies modestly by income — $14,094 at $0–30k against $19,220 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 57% of students at an average of $5,646. Borrowing is widespread: 56% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 13 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 | $14,094 |
| $30–48k | $12,325 |
| $48–75k | $15,075 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $19,220 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 39 of these 70 students, totalling $261,301 — an average of $6,700 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Clay County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026