Private for-profit · Community college

Ravenscroft Beauty College

Fort Wayne, Indiana · Large city

0%
Transfer rate: —
Avg net price: 63%
Grad / completion: $23,187
Median earnings

Ravenscroft Beauty College is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Fort Wayne, Indiana (large city setting), enrolling 104 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 104 undergradsLarge cityCold wintersSnowy

About Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in Allen County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. In 1696, Comte de Frontenac appointed Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, who began visiting Kekionga in 1702, and would later build the original Fort Miami here in the wilderness and pays d'en Haut of New France around 1706; Initially, a small trading outpost. The Embassy Theatre is a 2,471-seat performing arts theater, which hosts over 200,000 patrons annually. Since its founding in 1944, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra has often been hosted at the Embassy. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 6 miles to Fort Wayne, IN
To Great Lakes shore: 92 miles
Nearest airport: 13 miles to Fort Wayne (FWA)

How Ravenscroft Beauty College compares

Graduation rate63%

Higher than 53% · #23 of 46 in Indiana

First-year retention71%

Higher than 45%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$23,187

Higher than 12% · #36 of 42 in Indiana

Median debt at graduation$7,389

Lower than 81%

Student–faculty ratio20 : 1

Lower than 29%

Undergraduate enrollment104

Larger than 29%

Percentiles compare Ravenscroft Beauty College 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 Indiana.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women7875%
Men2625%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White44%
Black35%
Hispanic6.7%
Asian4.8%
Other or multiracial9.6%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 104
Student–faculty ratio: 20 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 62%
First-generation students: 57%
Students over 25: 54%
Median family income: $14,613

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

Outcomes

Graduated: 63%
First-year retention: 71%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $18,345
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $23,187
Median debt at graduation: $7,389
Students with federal loans: 56%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 16%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $100

Does the school pay you to attend?

Ravenscroft Beauty College 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): $23,187
Typical debt at graduation: $7,389
Debt vs. one year's pay: 32%
Out-earn a HS grad: 23%

Typical debt would take roughly 3.2 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

$21,629

Men

$27,701

Men out-earn women by $6,072 (28%) 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: 18°F
Annual rain: 37.5″
Annual snow: 33.6″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Woodburn 3N, IN US station (10.7 mi from campus).

What Ravenscroft Beauty College graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

69 grads$15k 1 yr$20k 5 yr$12k debt

69$15,449$19,984$12,041

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.