Paul Mitchell the School-Tampa
About
Paul Mitchell the School-Tampa is a cosmetology school located in Tampa, Florida, part of a network of 105 Paul Mitchell Schools across the United States and one international location in Slovenia. The school offers programs in cosmetology, barbering, and various beauty disciplines, graduating approximately 14,000 students annually.
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.
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.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 899 borrowers who entered repayment, 31 (3.4%) defaulted within three years — above 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 Paulmitchell
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
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Paulmitchell vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Paulmitchell 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-Tampa | 74% | — | 106 | $22,279 | — |
Aesthetic Science Institute | — | — | 164 | $10,505 | — |
Arkansas Beauty School-Little Rock | — | — | 106 | $24,060 | — |
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette | — | — | 144 | — | — |
Avenue Academy, A Cosmetology Institute | — | — | 96 | $14,819 | — |
Brown Aveda Institute-Mentor | — | — | 115 | $16,567 | — |
Capri College-Cedar Rapids | — | — | 129 | $13,683 | — |
Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics | — | — | 174 | $19,272 | — |
College of Wilmington | — | — | 132 | $14,063 | — |
Deluxe Barber College | — | — | 94 | $19,529 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Milwaukee | — | — | 111 | $15,591 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Queens | — | — | 172 | $18,439 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Warwick | — | — | 107 | $19,633 | — |
Houston Training Schools-Gessner | — | — | 138 | $7,354 | — |
Joseph's College Cosmetology | — | — | 92 | $10,513 | — |
Leons Beauty School Inc | — | — | 102 | $2,921 | — |
Milan Institute of Cosmetology-San Antonio Military | — | — | 225 | $19,569 | — |
New England Hair Academy | — | — | 87 | $19,653 | — |
Nova Academy of Cosmetology Woodbury | — | — | 122 | $19,898 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Logan | — | — | 133 | $14,641 | — |
Salon Professional Academy | — | — | 237 | $22,259 | — |
Spa Tech Institute-Plymouth | — | — | 233 | $19,494 | — |
Texas College of Cosmetology-Abilene | — | — | 40 | $16,302 | — |
Texas College of Cosmetology-San Angelo | — | — | 72 | $15,721 | — |
The Salon Professional Academy | — | — | 106 | $12,628 | — |
The Salon Professional Academy-Lewisville | — | — | 132 | — | — |
Tricoci University of Beauty Culture-Elgin | — | — | 138 | $17,863 | — |
Tricoci University of Beauty Culture-Glendale Heights | — | — | 132 | $16,274 | — |
UCAS University of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences-Harlingen | — | — | 87 | $18,426 | — |
| Peer group median | 74% | — | 122 | $16,567 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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