Paul Mitchell
the School-Columbia
For-profit College in West Columbia, SC. Median 10-year earnings $26,696.
Students who entered Paul Mitchell the School-Columbia reach a median of $26,696 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $11,740, 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.
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 100% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 474 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $17,146 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $18,210 at $0–30k, $18,050 at $75–110k. Grant aid reaches 59% of students at an average of $5,295. Federal borrowing reaches 52% 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 · 75 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 | $18,210 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $18,050 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 248 of these 474 students, totalling $1,898,146 — an average of $7,654 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lexington 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)