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For-profit College

Victoria's Academy
of Cosmetology

For-profit College in Kennewick, WA. Median 10-year earnings $24,668.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Victoria's Academy of Cosmetology · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$24,668
Median debt at grad
$7,830
Federal loan default
1.7%

Students who entered Victoria's Academy of Cosmetology reach a median of $24,668 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $7,830.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 1.7% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
88%
Transfer-out rate
Student:faculty
5:1

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. Retention is strong at 88%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The 5:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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. This is a small school — 107 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$22,095
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
51%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
50%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 107 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Net price lands at $22,095 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($21,479 versus $21,689), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 51% of students at an average of $4,811. Federal borrowing reaches 50% 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.

% receiving grants
58%
Average grant
$4,063

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 95 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 $21,479
$30–48k $22,683
$48–75k $23,149
$75–110k $20,813
$110k+ $21,689

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 54 of these 107 students, totalling $408,062 — an average of $7,557 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

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

Studio
$1,122/mo
1 bedroom
$1,268/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,538/mo

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

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How we evaluate Victoria's Academy of Cosmetology

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