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2026-10-05
Will Cosmetology Schools Lose Federal Financial Aid?
The Education Department expects 93 percent of the cosmetology programs it tests to fail its new earnings rule, which cuts off federal loans to programs whose graduates earn less than high school graduates. What the final rule does, when loans could actually be cut, why Pell Grants mostly survive, and what it means if you enroll now.
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2026-09-25
How Much Debt Does Cosmetology School Leave You With in 2026?
Graduates of the typical cosmetology school leave with about $8,500 in federal loans, roughly $90 a month, and only a few dozen schools in the country leave them owing more than their first-year pay. How the balance varies by school type and state, what the federal figure leaves out, and how to borrow less.
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2026-08-31
Which States Let You Do Part of Cosmetology School Online
No state licenses a fully online cosmetologist, but the share of hours you can take at home runs from a tenth to a half depending on where you train. Here is the rule in each state, quoted from the rule itself.
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2026-08-31
How Many Cosmetology Schools Have a Lapsed License?
Boards publish every school record they hold, current or not. Across 34 states we read, roughly a quarter of those records are expired, closed, superseded or revoked, and they are still listed in commercial school directories.
What the Cosmetology School Blog Covers
The cosmetology school blog takes the questions that cut across every state: how much debt a beauty school leaves you with, how many hours you can study online, and how often a school on a commercial directory turns out to have a lapsed license. The state pages answer them one state at a time; the posts put the states side by side.
Each post is built from the same records the rankings use. Hour rules and online limits are quoted from the state boards' own regulations, license status comes from the boards' license files, and debt and completion come from the US Department of Education's College Scorecard. Every figure links to the record it came from, and a post says plainly where a board publishes nothing that would answer the question.
Start with the state rankings if you already know where you will train, or read how the schools are ranked before you compare them.