Most Diverse Beauty Schools 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 Most Diverse Student Body

#1: Grace International Beauty School — Queens

100.0% non-white students

#2: Brittany Beauty Academy — Bronx

99.3% non-white students

#3: Empire Beauty School — Union

98.3% non-white students

#4: Mildred Elley — New York

97.2% non-white students

#5: Empire Beauty School — Bloomfield

97.1% non-white students

#6: Empire Beauty School — New York

97.0% non-white students

#7: American Beauty School — Bronx

95.5% non-white students

#8: Empire Beauty School — Queens

95.1% non-white students

#9: Long Island Beauty School — Bay Shore

93.0% non-white students

#10: Empire Beauty School — Brooklyn

89.4% non-white students

#11: Pro Beauty Academy — Edison

86.1% non-white students

#12: Total Image Beauty Academy — Union City

84.8% non-white students

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

83.9% non-white students

#14: Atelier Esthetique Institute of Esthetics — New York

82.4% non-white students

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

82.1% non-white students

#16: Westchester School of Beauty Culture — Mount Vernon

81.3% non-white students

#17: The Lia Schorr Institute — New York

78.3% non-white students

#18: Parisian Beauty School — Hackensack

76.7% non-white students

#19: Innovate Salon Academy — South Plainfield

74.8% non-white students

#20: Robert Fiance Beauty Schools — North Plainfield

74.7% non-white students

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

74.4% non-white students

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

63.5% non-white students

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

60.9% non-white students

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

60.7% non-white students

#25: Empire Beauty School — Peekskill

58.3% non-white students

#26: Berkowits School of Esthetics — Forest Hills

55.5% non-white students

#27: Robert Fiance Beauty Schools — West New York

54.1% non-white students

#28: Arrojo Cosmetology School — New York

50.7% non-white students

#29: Capri Cosmetology Learning Center — Nanuet

44.4% non-white students

#30: New York Institute of Beauty — Islandia

43.8% non-white students

#31: Long Island Beauty School — Hauppauge

41.6% non-white students

#32: Paul Mitchell The School NYC — Staten Island

41.5% non-white students

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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, we used each school’s reported student population race/ethnicity data from 2022, the most recent available as of publication time.

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