Most Popular 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 Most Popular Beauty Schools

#1: Moler Barber College — Oakland

638 students enrolled

#2: International College of Cosmetology — Oakland

398 students enrolled

#3: The Salon Professional Academy — San Jose

387 students enrolled

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

387 students enrolled

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

344 students enrolled

#5: JD Academy of Salon and Spa — Danville

291 students enrolled

#6: Cinta Aveda Institute — San Francisco

205 students enrolled

#7: Urban Barber College — Concord

192 students enrolled

#8: Hilltop Beauty School — Daly City

140 students enrolled

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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.

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