Attendance and Cost Considerations

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A minimum of 1600 hours of documented actual cosmetology class/clinic time attendance is required for a student to be certified by NPC as being eligible to sit for the Arizona State Board of Cosmetology License Exam. These hours must be completed before the student takes the State Board Examination.

The average costs excluding any away from home living expense such as housing and meals for students to obtain those same 1600 hours based on 28 private schools in the State of Arizona in 1990 was approximately $7,000. The estimated cost for instruction to the resident or commuting students at NPC for the 2003-2004 year is approximately $3,460.00 or less than 1/3 that of the average private school in the state.

However, in order for NPC to keep the instructional costs down to this level for students, strict control of instructional time must be maintained and scheduling done such that the program is in a very concentrated time frame (see section III). To achieve this, only a minimum number of hours are built into the schedule to allow for absences due to illness or other reasons.

Only serious students with good physical health and their personal lives, transportation, outside responsibilities, etc. in control enough to avoid missing many classes over a 10-1/2 consecutive month period should make application for program acceptance. . If a student comes up short on hours near the end of each semester, and the program, they may not be able to simply re-enroll in a subsequent class to complete those missing hours.