Private for-profit · Community college

Hair Academy

New Carrollton, Maryland · Large suburb

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Transfer rate: $20,565
Avg net price: 61%
Grad / completion: $20,953
Median earnings

Hair Academy is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in New Carrollton, Maryland (large suburb setting), enrolling 229 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 229 undergradsLarge suburbCold wintersNear the coast

About New Carrollton, Maryland

New Carrollton is a city in central Prince George's County, Maryland, 10 miles (16 km) east of Washington, D.C. Developer Albert W. Turner acquired the former estate of horse racing figure Edward L. Mahoney after Mahoney's death in 1957 and transformed it into a planned suburb. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large suburb
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 10 miles to Washington, DC
To the ocean: 10 miles
Nearest airport: 12 miles to Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) · major hub

How Hair Academy compares

Graduation rate61%

Higher than 50% · #11 of 38 in Maryland

First-year retention51%

Higher than 12%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$20,953

Higher than 7% · #32 of 38 in Maryland

Average net price$20,565

Cheaper than 30% · #28 cheapest of 40 in Maryland

Median debt at graduation$13,000

Lower than 22%

Student–faculty ratio25 : 1

Lower than 12%

Undergraduate enrollment229

Larger than 48%

Percentiles compare Hair Academy 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 Maryland.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women11651%
Men11349%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White0.9%
Black91%
Hispanic7.9%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 229
Student–faculty ratio: 25 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 29%
First-generation students: 61%
Students over 25: 50%
Median family income: $6,222

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: $20,565

Outcomes

Graduated: 61%
First-year retention: 51%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $20,702
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $20,953
Median debt at graduation: $13,000
Students with federal loans: 31%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 11%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

61%

Low-income (Pell)

36%

First-generation

37%

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

$20,279

$30–48k

$21,652

$48–75k

$21,291

$75–110k

—

$110k+

—

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?

Hair Academy 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): $20,953
Typical debt at graduation: $13,000
Debt vs. one year's pay: 62%
Out-earn a HS grad: 19%

Typical debt would take roughly 6.2 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Weigh it value

The payoff is less clear-cut here — weigh the debt against the earnings and your intended field before borrowing heavily.

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

$21,256

Men

$14,694

Women out-earn men by $6,562 (45%) 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: 88°F
Winter low: 22°F
Annual rain: 44″
Annual snow: 15.8″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Glenn Dale Bell Stn, MD US station (3.6 mi from campus).

What Hair Academy graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

165 grads$17k 1 yr$20k 5 yr$13k debt

165$16,819$19,808$13,000

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.