South Hills
Beauty Academy
For-profit College in Pittsburgh, PA. Median 10-year earnings $23,453.
Ten-year median earnings of $23,453 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $3,431.
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. 97% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The 8:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 501 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,950 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. 11% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 19% 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 · 193 students
Federal student loans went to 94 of these 501 students, totalling $660,996 — an average of $7,032 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Allegheny 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)