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Barber Tech Academy-Columbia

⌖ Columbia, SC · 0 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

MODELED SCENARIO · Uncertain payoff

Payoff needs your actual price

ROI withheld because the institution-wide price is missing, below the reliability floor or produces an extreme price-sensitive scenario.

Available federal data is not complete enough for a confident payoff classification.

—Modeled economic break-even

Not availableModeled 10-year ROI

—Observed earnings · year 4

Economic ROI includes direct price and earnings forgone during study · $45,000 comparison earnings · values held flat · see the formula

PAYOFF CURVE

Not enough reliable price data to model ROI.

FEDERAL COST DATA

Four ways to read college price.

Annual college-wide figures from the current College Scorecard release. Average net price covers full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving federal aid; public-college figures use in-state students. Program tuition and individual aid offers may differ.

Published in-state tuitionNot available

Sticker price

Published out-of-state tuitionNot available

Sticker price

Average net price$26,281

Title IV student average

Cost of attendance$34,573

Tuition + living budget

COLLEGE AT A GLANCE

Institution details

Current federal characteristics describing the college—not the outcomes of a specific program.

Accreditor: National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences
Main award level: Certificates
Campus setting: City
Admissions: Open admission
Delivery: Campus or mixed delivery
Federal designation: No special designation reported

Sources: College Scorecard June 2026 release and IPEDS 2024 institutional characteristics.

OBSERVED FEDERAL MEASURES

Cost, debt, completion and earnings context

$26,281Average net price / year

$34,573Cost of attendance

Not availableMedian federal student debt · completer borrowers

Not availablePublished 10-year payment estimate

Not availableMedian earnings · year 4 after completion

Not availableCompletion rate

Not availableAdmission rate

51Student size

Institution debt covers federal student-loan borrowers who completed. Parent PLUS and private loans are excluded; missing and privacy-suppressed values remain unavailable.

PRICE BY FAMILY INCOME

Average net price is not one price

Federal averages for aided students in each family-income band. Your aid offer can differ.

$0–30k$26,191

$30–48k$27,178

$48–75kNot available

$75–110kNot available

$110k+Not available

LONGER-TERM CONTEXT

What happens beyond the first earnings measure

Year 5Not available

Year 6Not available

Year 10Not available

Full-time retention: 66.7%
Part-time retention: Not available
Completion within 200% of normal time: Not available

Earnings timepoints may use different historical cohorts and should not be read as one group’s guaranteed salary growth.

EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

Not availableYear 1

Not availableYear 4

Not availableYear 5

Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.

BUILD A REAL SHORTLIST

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PROGRAM OUTCOMES

No field-level outcomes are currently reportable.

This college remains in the national directory because it appears in the College Scorecard. Program outcomes may be unavailable, privacy-suppressed or outside the reported cohorts.

Earnings, price, completion and enrollment are observed federal measures. ROI, payoff and break-even are modeled scenarios built from those measures and fixed assumptions. College payoff is not the payoff of every degree at this school; use the program table for a more precise comparison.