Private for-profit · Community college

Rudae's School of Beauty Culture-Ft Wayne

Fort Wayne, Indiana · Large city

0%
Transfer rate: $24,926
Avg net price: 79%
Grad / completion: $25,749
Median earnings

Rudae's School of Beauty Culture-Ft Wayne is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Fort Wayne, Indiana (large city setting), enrolling 91 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 91 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: 3 miles to Fort Wayne, IN
To Great Lakes shore: 94 miles
Nearest airport: 11 miles to Fort Wayne (FWA)

How Rudae's School of Beauty Culture-Ft Wayne compares

Graduation rate79%

Higher than 76% · #10 of 46 in Indiana

First-year retention100%

Higher than 95%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$25,749

Higher than 20% · #29 of 42 in Indiana

Average net price$24,926

Cheaper than 18% · #43 cheapest of 51 in Indiana

Median debt at graduation$9,500

Lower than 57%

Student–faculty ratio11 : 1

Lower than 78%

Undergraduate enrollment91

Larger than 26%

Percentiles compare Rudae's School of Beauty Culture-Ft Wayne 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 race / ethnicity

White68%
Black15%
Hispanic7.7%
Asian4.4%
Other or multiracial4.4%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 91
Student–faculty ratio: 11 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 54%
First-generation students: 38%
Students over 25: 31%
Median family income: $23,849

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: $24,926

Outcomes

Graduated: 79%
First-year retention: 100%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $23,000
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $25,749
Median debt at graduation: $9,500
Students with federal loans: 63%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 40%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $100

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

$22,667

$30–48k

$25,885

$48–75k

—

$75–110k

$29,966

$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.

39%

of first-years get a grant from the school

$594

average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 39% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $594. 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 41 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): $25,749
Typical debt at graduation: $9,500
Debt vs. one year's pay: 37%
Out-earn a HS grad: 19%

Typical debt would take roughly 3.7 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: 18°F
Annual rain: 39.5″
Annual snow: 33.6″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, FT Wayne Intl AP, IN US station (11.4 mi from campus).

What Rudae's School of Beauty Culture-Ft Wayne graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

76 grads$19k 1 yr$23k 5 yr$11k debt

76$19,131$23,408$11,000

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.