2025 Best General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
8,465General Cosmetology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in general cosmetology/cosmetologist, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #450 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for general cosmetology/cosmetologist students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 8,465 degrees in general cosmetology/cosmetologist annually.
Choosing a Great General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist School
The general cosmetology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general cosmetology/cosmetologist schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist in the Southwest Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general cosmetology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southwest Region Schools in General Cosmetology
San Jacinto Community College is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in general cosmetology/cosmetologist. Located in the medium-sized city of Pasadena, San Jacinto College is a public college with a fairly large student population. This college ranks 31st out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 150 general cosmetology/cosmetologist students who graduated with this degree at San Jacinto College in the most recent year we have data available.
Houston Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general cosmetology/cosmetologist. Houston Community College is a fairly large public college located in the city of Houston. A Best Colleges rank of #474 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Houston Community College is a great college overall.
There were about 43 general cosmetology/cosmetologist students who graduated with this degree at Houston Community College in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general cosmetology/cosmetologist has to check out Central New Mexico Community College. CNM is a large public college located in the city of Albuquerque. This college ranks 2nd out of 24 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were roughly 37 general cosmetology/cosmetologist students who graduated with this degree at CNM in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The general cosmetology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general cosmetology/cosmetologist schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.