Hastings Beauty School
For-profit College in Hastings, MN. Median 10-year earnings $26,258.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
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. First-year retention of 100% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 37 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,683 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($11,156 versus $18,478), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 57% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,966 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 59% 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 · 37 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 | $11,156 |
| $30–48k | $14,700 |
| $48–75k | $12,321 |
| $75–110k | $19,167 |
| $110k+ | $18,478 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 22 of these 37 students, totalling $126,991 — an average of $5,772 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Dakota County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026