Private for-profit · Community college

Paul Mitchell the School-New Orleans

Metairie, Louisiana · Midsize city

0%
Transfer rate: $25,729
Avg net price: 76%
Grad / completion: $25,699
Median earnings

Paul Mitchell the School-New Orleans is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Metairie, Louisiana (midsize city setting), enrolling 185 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 185 undergradsMidsize cityNear the coast

About Metairie, Louisiana

Metairie is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, and is part of the New Orleans metropolitan area. Métairie (French:) is the French term for a small tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce, a practice also known as sharecropping (in French, métayage). Jefferson Parish Library operates public libraries. The East Bank Regional Library, which houses the library system's headquarters, is in Metairie. Other public libraries in Metairie include the Lakeshore Library, the Old Metairie Library, and the Wagner Library. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Midsize city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 7 miles to New Orleans, LA
To the ocean: 1 mile
Nearest airport: 6 miles to Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY) · major hub

How Paul Mitchell the School-New Orleans compares

Graduation rate76%

Higher than 72% · #19 of 73 in Louisiana

First-year retention81%

Higher than 67%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$25,699

Higher than 20% · #34 of 61 in Louisiana

Average net price$25,729

Cheaper than 17% · #63 cheapest of 71 in Louisiana

Median debt at graduation$9,833

Lower than 48%

Student–faculty ratio15 : 1

Lower than 56%

Undergraduate enrollment185

Larger than 43%

Percentiles compare Paul Mitchell the School-New Orleans 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 Louisiana.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women17997%
Men63%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White41%
Black42%
Hispanic8.1%
Asian2.2%
Other or multiracial7.0%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 185
Student–faculty ratio: 15 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 62%
First-generation students: 49%
Students over 25: 32%
Median family income: $18,821

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

Where students come from

Home state of the 37 first-year students who entered in fall 2023.

From Louisiana97%
Other U.S. states2.7%

Most first-years stay in state — Paul Mitchell the School-New Orleans draws overwhelmingly from Louisiana.

Out-of-state students usually pay a higher tuition rate at public schools — check the cost card above for your bracket. Source: IPEDS residence & migration, fall 2023 entering class.

Cost

In-state tuition: —
Room & board: —
Total cost of attendance: —
Average net price: $25,729

Outcomes

Graduated: 76%
First-year retention: 81%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $20,947
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $25,699
Median debt at graduation: $9,833
Students with federal loans: 59%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 59%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

76%

Low-income (Pell)

50%

First-generation

52%

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: $25

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

$25,729

$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?

Paul Mitchell the School-New Orleans 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): $25,699
Typical debt at graduation: $9,833
Debt vs. one year's pay: 38%
Out-earn a HS grad: 23%

Typical debt would take roughly 3.8 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

$25,810

Men

$29,376

Men out-earn women by $3,566 (14%) 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: 91°F
Winter low: 46°F
Annual rain: 63.4″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, New Orleans Intl AP, LA US station (5.3 mi from campus).

What Paul Mitchell the School-New Orleans graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

106 grads$17k 1 yr$22k 5 yr$16k debt

106$16,701$21,798$16,375

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.