Iowa School
of Beauty-Des Moines
For-profit College in Des Moines, IA. Six-year graduation rate 81%. Median 10-year earnings $25,803.
Ten-year median earnings of $25,803 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 81% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $6,333.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 81% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
A 81% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Just 44% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Being a for-profit two-year institution is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual. This is a small school — 145 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 145 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $12,007 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($11,214 versus $15,468), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 48% of students receive any. 50% 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 · 25 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 | $11,214 |
| $30–48k | $14,501 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $15,468 |
| $110k+ | $15,468 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 73 of these 145 students, totalling $525,047 — an average of $7,192 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Polk 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)