Hollywood Institute
of Beauty Careers-West Palm Beach
For-profit College in West Palm Beach, FL. Median 10-year earnings $21,386.
Students who entered Hollywood Institute of Beauty Careers-West Palm Beach reach a median of $21,386 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $6,199, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
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 64% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 24:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. 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. This is a small school — 508 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 508 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $37,240 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price varies modestly by income — $36,962 at $0–30k against $33,412 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid is limited — 40% of students receive any. 38% 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 · 216 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 | $36,962 |
| $30–48k | $36,151 |
| $48–75k | $39,519 |
| $75–110k | $32,963 |
| $110k+ | $33,412 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 193 of these 508 students, totalling $977,633 — an average of $5,065 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Palm Beach 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)