Best Cosmetology Associate Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Cosmetology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Cosmetology School for Your Associate Degree

The cosmetology associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality cosmetology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on cosmetology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other cosmetology students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for cosmetology to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized cosmetology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for cosmetology students working on their associate degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Due to missing data, we could not provide you with the cosmetology quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer cosmetology and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Cosmetology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Cosmetology ranking.

Best Cosmetology Colleges by State

Explore the best cosmetology colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	196	15
Michigan	192	6
Indiana	123	8
Illinois	119	19
Wisconsin	114	6

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Cosmetology Related Rankings by Major

One of 4 majors within the Personal & Culinary Services area of study, Cosmetology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Cosmetology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist	32
Master Aesthetician/Esthetician	8
Salon/Beauty Salon Management/Manager	7
Barbering/Barber	5
Aesthetician/Esthetician & Skin Care Specialist	3

Most Popular Majors Related to Cosmetology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Culinary Arts	675
Funeral & Mortuary Science	282
Other Personal & Culinary Services	6

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Tiffany Bumgardner. More about our data sources and methodologies.