Paul Mitchell the School-NYC
About
Paul Mitchell the School-NYC is a beauty school located in New York City, part of the Paul Mitchell Schools network which includes 105 locations in the United States and one in Slovenia. It focuses on training students in various beauty-related fields such as cosmetology, barbering, skincare, and nail care, graduating approximately 14,000 new professionals each year.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 1 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data1 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Action history · 9
- Dec 2024Grant Substantive Change: ProgramNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Dec 2024Renewal of AccreditationNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Jul 2022Grant Substantive Change: ProgramNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Apr 2022Removal of Monitoring StatusNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Apr 2022Removal of Monitoring StatusNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 38 students received $218K in Pell grants, alongside $267K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 60 borrowers who entered repayment, 1 (1.6%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Paul Mitchell the School-NYC
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Data quality: 1 report was later determined unfounded across the reporting period and are excluded from the totals above.
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Paul Mitchell the School-NYC vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Paul Mitchell the School-NYC selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectPaul Mitchell the School-NYC | 84% | — | 96 | $19,024 | — |
A Better U Beauty Barber Academy | — | — | 46 | $18,460 | — |
Academy of Salon Professionals | — | — | 50 | $15,071 | — |
Cloyd's Beauty School 1 Inc | — | — | 48 | $5,902 | — |
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy | — | — | 32 | $25,617 | — |
Diamond Beauty College | — | — | 67 | $9,494 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Reading | — | — | 90 | $18,390 | — |
Florida Academy of Health & Beauty | — | — | 54 | $9,457 | — |
Hair Arts Institute | — | — | 38 | $23,666 | — |
International College of Beauty Arts & Sciences | — | — | 62 | $21,390 | — |
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City | — | — | 67 | $9,798 | — |
Kaizen Beauty Academy | — | — | 95 | — | — |
Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute | — | — | 66 | $16,686 | — |
Makana Esthetics Wellness Academy | — | — | 50 | $14,133 | — |
Midwest Barber College | — | — | — | $18,236 | — |
Moler Hollywood Beauty Academy | — | — | 73 | $9,962 | — |
Montgomery Beauty School | — | — | 101 | $20,589 | — |
North Florida Cosmetology Institute | — | — | 91 | $16,320 | — |
Omega Institute of Cosmetology | — | — | 55 | $10,667 | — |
Orlo School of Hair Design and Cosmetology | — | — | 56 | $16,864 | — |
Paramount Beauty Academy | — | — | 51 | $17,877 | — |
Premiere Aesthetics Institute | — | — | 45 | $12,404 | — |
Searcy Beauty College | — | — | 54 | $15,106 | — |
The Academy of Hair Design Six | — | — | 37 | $19,488 | — |
The Salon Professional Academy-Huntsville | — | — | 53 | $19,115 | — |
The University of Aesthetics & Cosmetology | — | — | 39 | $16,241 | — |
Top Nails & Hair Beauty School | — | — | 92 | — | — |
Trend Barber College | — | — | 30 | $15,398 | — |
Trend Setters School | — | — | 65 | $9,460 | — |
Vaughn Beauty College | — | — | 63 | $8,752 | — |
| Peer group median | 84% | — | 55 | $16,281 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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