Tricoci University
of Beauty Culture-Elgin
For-profit College in Elgin, IL. Median 10-year earnings $35,650.
Ten-year median earnings of $35,650 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $7,307, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.20 — 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 is strong at 85%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Retention drops to 69% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. At 21:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 250 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $20,066 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $19,390 at $0–30k, $22,680 at $75–110k. Grant aid reaches 50% of students at an average of $5,393. Federal borrowing reaches 54% 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 · 30 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 | $19,390 |
| $30–48k | $19,020 |
| $48–75k | $24,708 |
| $75–110k | $22,680 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 136 of these 250 students, totalling $913,487 — an average of $6,717 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kane 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)