Most Diverse Beauty Schools in San Francisco, CA Metro Area

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

San Francisco, CA Beauty Schools with the Most Diverse Student Body

#1: Hilltop Beauty School — Daly City

97.0% non-white students

#2: International College of Cosmetology — Oakland

96.7% non-white students

#3: Moler Barber College — Oakland

93.8% non-white students

#4: Urban Barber College — Concord

90.9% non-white students

#5: San Francisco Institute of Esthetics & Cosmetology — San Francisco

74.5% non-white students

#6: The Salon Professional Academy — San Jose

74.1% non-white students

#7: Paul Mitchell The School East Bay — Pleasant Hill

73.8% non-white students

#8: Cinta Aveda Institute — San Francisco

70.4% non-white students

#9: JD Academy of Salon and Spa — Danville

46.8% 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.