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GIC was not ranked in College Factual's 2025 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Georgia Institute of Cosmetology has an open admissions policy. This means that you'll only have to submit basic materials, which may include proof that you completed high school or an equivalent program.
The student to faculty ratio is often used as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At Georgia Institute of Cosmetology, this rate is 20 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
Georgia Institute of Cosmetology has a freshmen retention rate of 76%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 302 undergraduates at GIC with 81 being full-time and 221 being part-time.
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of GIC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At GIC, approximately 92% of students took out student loans averaging $5,883 a year. That adds up to $23,532 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for GIC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3529 Atlanta Hwy, Athens, GA 30606-3152 |
| Phone: | 706-549-6400 |
| Website: | gic.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Cosmetology | 111 | NA |
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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