Private for-profit · Community college

Montgomery Beauty School

Silver Spring, Maryland · Large suburb

0%
Transfer rate: $20,755
Avg net price: 50%
Grad / completion: $18,726
Median earnings

Montgomery Beauty School is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Silver Spring, Maryland (large suburb setting), enrolling 101 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 101 undergradsLarge suburbCold wintersNear the coast

About Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is a census-designated place in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city. In 1840, Francis Preston Blair, who later helped organize the modern Republican Party, along with his daughter, Elizabeth, discovered a spring flowing with chips of mica believed to be the now-dry spring visible at Acorn Park. Downtown Silver Spring hosts numerous entertainment, musical, and ethnic festivals, and the annual Montgomery County Thanksgiving Parade (Saturday before Thanksgiving). (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large suburb
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 7 miles to Washington, DC
To the ocean: 8 miles
Nearest airport: 10 miles to Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) · major hub

How Montgomery Beauty School compares

Graduation rate50%

Higher than 37% · #15 of 38 in Maryland

First-year retention56%

Higher than 16%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$18,726

Higher than 4% · #35 of 38 in Maryland

Average net price$20,755

Cheaper than 29% · #30 cheapest of 40 in Maryland

Median debt at graduation$11,845

Lower than 31%

Student–faculty ratio25 : 1

Lower than 12%

Undergraduate enrollment101

Larger than 29%

Percentiles compare Montgomery Beauty School 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

Women6766%
Men3434%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White1.0%
Black50%
Hispanic50%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 101
Student–faculty ratio: 25 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 49%
First-generation students: 71%
Students over 25: 60%
Median family income: $11,688

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: $20,755

Outcomes

Graduated: 50%
First-year retention: 56%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $15,277
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $18,726
Median debt at graduation: $11,845
Students with federal loans: 59%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 20%

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

$20,593

$30–48k

$21,130

$48–75k

$22,025

$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.

17%

of first-years get a grant from the school

$500

average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 17% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $500. 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 35 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): $18,726
Typical debt at graduation: $11,845
Debt vs. one year's pay: 63%
Out-earn a HS grad: 22%

Typical debt would take roughly 6.3 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.

Campus climate

Summer high: 87°F
Winter low: 25°F
Annual rain: 44″
Annual snow: 15.8″

Average temperature

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Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Beltsville, MD US station (4.3 mi from campus).

What Montgomery Beauty School graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

50 grads$19k 1 yr$22k 5 yr$13k debt

50$18,623$22,199$12,937

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.