by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Cosmetology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Cosmetology is the 226th most popular major in the country with 107,895 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, cosmetology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $17,007 and had an average of $10,898 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 12,458 cosmetology graduates with average earnings and debt of $17,981 and $10,453 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 60 cosmetology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Cosmetology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in cosmetology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in cosmetology.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Cosmetology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree cosmetology students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Cosmetology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Douglas Education Center landed the #1 spot on the list. Douglas Education Center is a small private for-profit school situated in Monessen, Pennsylvania. It awarded 57 associates’s cosmetology degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Butler County Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Cosmetology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Butler, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s cosmetology degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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