MJ Barber
& Beauty Academy
For-profit College in La Quinta, CA. Median 10-year earnings $19,665.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $19,665, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Median debt at graduation is $2,905, 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 0.15 — 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. Retention is strong at 81%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 13:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. At 132 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 132 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $22,875 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($22,773 versus $22,361), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 72% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,090 — common but not automatic. 67% 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 · 43 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 | $22,773 |
| $30–48k | $22,420 |
| $48–75k | $24,962 |
| $75–110k | $22,361 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 88 of these 132 students, totalling $320,063 — an average of $3,637 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Riverside County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026