Paramount Beauty Academy
For-profit College in Portsmouth, OH. Six-year graduation rate 93%. Median 10-year earnings $21,361.
Students who entered Paramount Beauty Academy reach a median of $21,361 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate of 93% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,833.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 93% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
93% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention of 70% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Being a for-profit two-year institution 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 — 78 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 78 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $9,837 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $9,218 while those at $75–110k pay $17,388. Grant aid reaches 68% of students at an average of $4,804. 74% 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 · 62 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 | $9,218 |
| $30–48k | $11,205 |
| $48–75k | $13,400 |
| $75–110k | $17,388 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 58 of these 78 students, totalling $334,477 — an average of $5,767 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Scioto County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026