Tucson College
of Beauty
For-profit College in Tucson, AZ. Median 10-year earnings $27,314.
Ten-year median earnings of $27,314 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 $6,333.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.23 — 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. 81% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 225 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,367 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($16,746 versus $21,024), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 47% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 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 · 66 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 | $16,746 |
| $30–48k | $17,831 |
| $48–75k | $18,473 |
| $75–110k | $21,529 |
| $110k+ | $21,024 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 118 of these 225 students, totalling $773,612 — an average of $6,556 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pima 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)