Tricoci University
of Beauty Culture-Chicago NE
For-profit College in Chicago, IL. Median 10-year earnings $27,330.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $27,330, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,307 — 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 0.27 — 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. Retention of 63% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Part-time students actually return at a higher rate, 85%, which is unusual and suggests the school is built for them. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 257 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $19,279 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $30–48k bands is narrow ($19,346 versus $19,079), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 63% get grants averaging $5,601, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Most students borrow — 67% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 24 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 | $19,346 |
| $30–48k | $19,079 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 173 of these 257 students, totalling $1,255,955 — an average of $7,260 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cook 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)