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For-profit College

Port Huron
Cosmetology College

For-profit College in Waterford, MI. Median 10-year earnings $22,980.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Port Huron Cosmetology College · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$22,980
Federal loan default
0%
Green Flags
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
33%
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
9:1

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. 33% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. At 9:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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. The undergraduate body is just 69, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.

Financial Aid

Average net price
—
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
29%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
26%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 68 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

No average net price is published here, so the cost side of this page is incomplete. Treat the participation rates as a signal about aid, not about price. 29% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 26% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.

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.

% receiving grants
24%
Average grant
$6,471

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 17 students

Federal student loans went to 18 of these 68 students, totalling $88,139 — an average of $4,897 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Oakland County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,009/mo
1 bedroom
$1,122/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,411/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

VA caution flag

Probation or Equivalent or More Severe Status: Monitoring (Other - Provide unlisted or multiple justifications); School has an accreditation issue

GI Bill students
3
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Port Huron Cosmetology College

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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