Maryland Beauty
Academy of Essex
For-profit College in Baltimore, MD. Median 10-year earnings $20,445.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $20,445, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $8,500.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 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 is strong at 86%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 25:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. 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. This is a small school — 48 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 48 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,454 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $15,041 at $0–30k, $20,241 at $48–75k. 88% of students get grant aid averaging $3,918, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 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 · 10 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 | $15,041 |
| $30–48k | $18,441 |
| $48–75k | $20,241 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 29 of these 48 students, totalling $149,350 — an average of $5,150 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Baltimore County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026