Beauty Schools with the Best Graduation Rates in NYC Metro Area

WRITTEN BY Beauty Schools Directory Editorial Staff | EDITED BY Sarah Mattie | UPDATED ON 03/29/2024

NYC Beauty Schools with the Best Graduation Rates

#1: Christine Valmy International School for Esthetics, Skin Care and Makeup — New York

100% grad rate

#2: Grace International Beauty School — Queens

96% grad rate

#3: Innovate Salon Academy — South Plainfield

95% grad rate

#4: Arrojo Cosmetology School — New York

94% grad rate

#5: Cutting Edge Academy — Succasunna

92% grad rate

#6: Berkowits School of Esthetics — Forest Hills

91% grad rate

#6: Parisian Beauty School — Hackensack

91% grad rate

#8: Christine Valmy International School for Esthetics and Cosmetology — Pine Brook

90% grad rate

#8: Pro Beauty Academy — Edison

90% grad rate

#10: Artistic Academy of Hair Design — Morris Plains

88% grad rate

#11: Long Island Nail & Skin Care Institute — Levittown

87% grad rate

#12: Barber and Beauty Institute of New York — Hempstead

85% grad rate

#13: Paul Mitchell The School NYC — Staten Island

83% grad rate

#13: Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute New York — New York

83% grad rate

#15: Atelier Esthetique Institute of Esthetics — New York

80% grad rate

#15: Long Island Beauty School — Hauppauge

80% grad rate

#15: New York Institute of Beauty — Islandia

80% grad rate

#18: New York School of Esthetics & Day Spa — White Plains

77% grad rate

#19: Total Image Beauty Academy — Union City

76% grad rate

#20: Westchester School of Beauty Culture — Mount Vernon

75% grad rate

#21: Capri Cosmetology Learning Center — Nanuet

72% grad rate

#22: Empire Beauty School — Queens

63% grad rate

#23: Brittany Beauty Academy — Bronx

61% grad rate

#24: Empire Beauty School — Peekskill

60% grad rate

#24: Robert Fiance Beauty Schools — West New York

60% grad rate

#24: Robert Fiance Beauty Schools — North Plainfield

60% grad rate

#27: The Lia Schorr Institute — New York

59% grad rate

#28: Empire Beauty School — Brooklyn

56% grad rate

#29: Empire Beauty School — Union

52% grad rate

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Methodology and Editor’s Notes

We compared educational institutions from the Beauty Schools Directory database of beauty programs across the U.S. Those analyzed for these rankings were educational institutions that:

  • Report into the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)—predominantly institutions with programmatic accreditation
  • Had 50 or more students over the course of 12 months as of 2022
  • Were not a vocational/technical high school, community college, or postsecondary school that mainly offered programs outside of beauty training. We also excluded institutions offering massage therapy programs exclusively. These types of institutions were omitted for various reasons that make key data points difficult or irrelevant to compare apples to apples. We intended to compare standalone beauty schools or schools that mainly train beauty students.
  • For this ranking, “graduation rate within 150% of normal completion time of the program” was chosen as the variable, because beauty education caters to many nontraditional postsecondary students who often have life reasons that interfere with graduation within 100% of normal completion time. Institutions with such a graduation rate of less than 50% were omitted from the ranking.

Data was sourced from 2022, the latest available as of publication date.

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