Hinton Barber
and Beauty College
For-profit College in Vallejo, CA.
- ✓ 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. 82% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The student-faculty ratio is 17:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 89 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $19,659 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $22,097 at $0–30k, $23,566 at $110k+. 54% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,456 — common but not automatic. 39% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 17 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 | $22,097 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | $17,221 |
| $75–110k | $23,566 |
| $110k+ | $23,566 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 35 of these 89 students, totalling $204,973 — an average of $5,856 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Solano County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)