Private for-profit · Community college

Los Angeles College of Aesthetics

Los Angeles, California · Large city

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Transfer rate: $21,911
Avg net price: 85%
Grad / completion: $16,540
Median earnings

Los Angeles College of Aesthetics is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Los Angeles, California (large city setting), enrolling 117 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 117 undergradsLarge cityNear the coast

About Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. The historic center of Tongva power in the region was the settlement of Yaanga (Tongva: Iyáangẚ), meaning "place of the poison oak", which would eventually be the site where the Spanish founded the Pueblo de Los Ángeles. Iyáangẚ has also been translated as "the valley of smoke". Los Angeles is often billed as the creative capital of the world because one in every six of its residents works in a creative industry and there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other city at any other time in world history. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 4 miles to Los Angeles, CA
To the ocean: 10 miles
Nearest airport: 9 miles to Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne (HHR)

How Los Angeles College of Aesthetics compares

Graduation rate85%

Higher than 84% · #67 of 382 in California

First-year retention80%

Higher than 64%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$16,540

Higher than 1% · #319 of 326 in California

Average net price$21,911

Cheaper than 26% · #219 cheapest of 377 in California

Median debt at graduation$3,723

Lower than 99%

Student–faculty ratio21 : 1

Lower than 23%

Undergraduate enrollment117

Larger than 32%

Percentiles compare Los Angeles College of Aesthetics 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 California.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women9985%
Men1815%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White4.3%
Black26%
Hispanic54%
Asian0.9%
Other or multiracial15%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 117
Student–faculty ratio: 21 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 43%
First-generation students: 54%
Students over 25: 64%
Median family income: $12,676

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: $21,911

Outcomes

Graduated: 85%
First-year retention: 80%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $20,300
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $16,540
Median debt at graduation: $3,723
Students with federal loans: 32%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 53%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $10

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

$21,911

$30–48k

—

$48–75k

—

$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?

Grant aid from the school's own funds — the discount off sticker, on top of any federal or state help.

of first-years get a grant from the school

$3,425

average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 8% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $3,425. Most of what lowers the price here is federal or state money, not the school's own funds.

Blends need-based and merit aid — IPEDS doesn't split the two, so a high number can mean generous merit scholarships, deep need-based aid, or both. Figures cover 37 full-time first-year undergraduates, 2022–23. Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years): $16,540
Typical debt at graduation: $3,723
Debt vs. one year's pay: 23%
Out-earn a HS grad: 20%

Typical debt would take roughly 2.3 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.

Campus climate

Summer high: 84°F
Winter low: 48°F
Annual rain: 14.2″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, CA US station (4.3 mi from campus).

What Los Angeles College of Aesthetics graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

106 grads$18k 1 yr$14k 5 yr$6k debt

106$17,507$14,392$6,333

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.