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Image Maker
Beauty Institute

For-profit College in Hendersonville, TN.

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Image Maker Beauty Institute · Campus
Median debt at grad
$9,833
Federal loan default
0%
Green Flags
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
67%
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
34:1

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 is 67% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The 34:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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

Average net price
$17,434
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
54%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
64%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 90 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price after grant aid is $17,434 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $17,147 at $0–30k, $22,546 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 54% of students at an average of $5,690. Borrowing is widespread: 64% 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.

% receiving grants
57%
Average grant
$6,291

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 21 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 $17,147
$30–48k $15,151
$48–75k $17,668
$75–110k $22,546
$110k+ $22,546

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 58 of these 90 students, totalling $449,610 — an average of $7,752 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Sumner County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,507/mo
1 bedroom
$1,578/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,730/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

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How we evaluate Image Maker Beauty Institute

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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