2025 Best General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist Associate Degree Schools
18Colleges in the United States
953Associate Degrees
General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #126 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 18 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general cosmetology/cosmetologist students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 953 associate degrees in general cosmetology/cosmetologist during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of general cosmetology/cosmetologist for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general cosmetology program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general cosmetology/cosmetologist students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general cosmetology/cosmetologist students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general cosmetology/cosmetologist related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general cosmetology/cosmetologist students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist Schools
The general cosmetology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Cosmetology/Cosmetologist Associate Degree Schools.
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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).