Private for-profit · Community college

Aveda Institute-Columbus

Columbus, Ohio · Large city

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Transfer rate: $20,800
Avg net price: 74%
Grad / completion: $30,231
Median earnings

Aveda Institute-Columbus is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Columbus, Ohio (large city setting), enrolling 290 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 290 undergradsLarge cityCold winters

About Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. Between 1000 B.C. and 1700 A.D., the Columbus metropolitan area was a center to indigenous cultures known as the Mound Builders, including the Adena, Hopewell and Fort Ancient peoples. Remaining physical evidence of the cultures are their burial mounds and what they contained. Columbus has over 170 notable buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places; it also maintains its own register, the Columbus Register of Historic Properties, with 82 entries. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 7 miles to Columbus, OH
To Great Lakes shore: 95 miles
Nearest airport: 9 miles to John Glenn Columbus (CMH) · major hub

How Aveda Institute-Columbus compares

Graduation rate74%

Higher than 69% · #56 of 168 in Ohio

First-year retention87%

Higher than 76%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$30,231

Higher than 32% · #121 of 157 in Ohio

Average net price$20,800

Cheaper than 29% · #105 cheapest of 155 in Ohio

Median debt at graduation$6,333

Lower than 90%

Student–faculty ratio25 : 1

Lower than 12%

Undergraduate enrollment290

Larger than 52%

Percentiles compare Aveda Institute-Columbus with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Ohio.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women27494%
Men166%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White49%
Black29%
Hispanic0.7%
Other or multiracial21%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 290
Student–faculty ratio: 25 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 53%
First-generation students: 43%
Students over 25: 30%
Median family income: $21,830

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition: —
Room & board: —
Total cost of attendance: —
Average net price: $20,800

Outcomes

Graduated: 74%
First-year retention: 87%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $24,063
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $30,231
Median debt at graduation: $6,333
Students with federal loans: 58%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 38%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

74%

Low-income (Pell)

65%

First-generation

69%

When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: Free

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k

$19,125

$30–48k

$19,979

$48–75k

$22,460

$75–110k

$26,656

$110k+

$26,656

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Aveda Institute-Columbus funds essentially no grants of its own — almost all aid here comes from federal (Pell), state, or outside sources rather than the school's own discount. Its sticker price is what it is.

Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid, 2022–23 full-time first-year undergraduates.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years): $30,231
Typical debt at graduation: $6,333
Debt vs. one year's pay: 21%
Out-earn a HS grad: 34%

Typical debt would take roughly 2.1 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women

$29,976

Men

$35,276

Men out-earn women by $5,300 (18%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high: 84°F
Winter low: 21°F
Annual rain: 35.8″
Annual snow: 19″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Columbus Ohio State Univ AP, OH US station (2.1 mi from campus).

What Aveda Institute-Columbus graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

219 grads$21k 1 yr$28k 5 yr$10k debt

219$21,089$28,312$9,833

Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.