Keene Beauty Academy
For-profit College in Keene, NH.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Retention of 63% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Part-time students actually return at a higher rate, 74%, which is unusual and suggests the school is built for them. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Being a for-profit short-program school 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 94 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $13,094 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $12,620 at $0–30k, $20,078 at $110k+. Only 47% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. 57% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 44 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 | $12,620 |
| $30–48k | $13,288 |
| $48–75k | $13,701 |
| $75–110k | $13,271 |
| $110k+ | $20,078 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 54 of these 94 students, totalling $265,870 — an average of $4,924 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cheshire County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026