Kenneth Shuler
School of Cosmetology-Greenville
For-profit College in Greenville, SC. Median 10-year earnings $23,193.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $23,193, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $6,333 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 95% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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 276 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $20,497 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $18,976 at $0–30k, $24,774 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 65% of students at an average of $5,072. Borrowing is widespread: 60% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 73 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 | $18,976 |
| $30–48k | $17,729 |
| $48–75k | $19,929 |
| $75–110k | $24,774 |
| $110k+ | $24,774 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 165 of these 276 students, totalling $1,104,531 — an average of $6,694 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Anderson County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026