Nuvo College
of Cosmetology
For-profit College in Norton Shores, MI. Median 10-year earnings $18,159.
Ten-year median earnings of $18,159 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Graduates leave owing a median of $5,500 — 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 0.30 — 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. Retention of 67% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 19:1, 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. This is a small school — 110 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 85 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $18,242 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($18,223 versus $23,615), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 45% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. Federal borrowing reaches 29% of students.
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 · 51 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 | $18,223 |
| $30–48k | $18,263 |
| $48–75k | $20,097 |
| $75–110k | $22,879 |
| $110k+ | $23,615 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 25 of these 85 students, totalling $152,637 — an average of $6,105 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Muskegon 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)