Program / Esthetics
The shortest path to a state license.
600 hours, focused entirely on skin work, facials, waxing, and makeup. Daytime cohorts complete in 6 months. Evening and weekend cohorts complete in 11. Half the time of the cosmetology program, comparable earnings once you’re established.
Who this is for
Three kinds of student.
You already know you want this work.
You don’t want to spend the time hair training requires. You want the license, the treatment room, and a chair you can book out.
Licensure to expand the service menu.
You’re already working in a med-spa front-of-house or assistant role and need the state license to start running treatments yourself.
The faster on-ramp.
You want out of your current job inside the next twelve months and need a license that gets you paid, not a four-year detour.
The treatment room
Six private rooms, mag lamp, steamer, the works.
Esthetics students rotate across all six rooms during clinical hours. Equipment is standard salon and med-spa — high-frequency, galvanic, microcurrent, LED. The kit list mirrors what most local employers run, so day one in a real job isn’t day one on unfamiliar tools.
Cost & aid
Roughly half the cosmetology number.
Total tuition: $9,200. Books and kit: $1,100. Title IV eligible. Payment plans available. The total program cost is roughly half the cosmetology program, and most esthetics graduates earn comparable wages once they’re established — the math works out faster than the headline suggests.
- Tuition$9,200
- Books + kit$1,100
- Title IV eligibleYes
- Payment plansNo-interest, across the program
- Specialties coveredFacials, chemical peels, waxing, makeup, LED, microcurrent