Milan Institute
of Cosmetology-El Paso
For-profit College in El Paso, TX. Median 10-year earnings $22,378.
Ten-year median earnings of $22,378 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $6,333, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.28 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 83% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. A 20:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. 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 — 694 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 694 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $27,264 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $26,568 at $0–30k, $29,525 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 67% of students at an average of $3,744. Most students borrow — 60% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 582 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 | $26,568 |
| $30–48k | $26,300 |
| $48–75k | $27,657 |
| $75–110k | $30,412 |
| $110k+ | $29,525 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 416 of these 694 students, totalling $2,181,920 — an average of $5,245 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (El Paso 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)