Online Education Information & Advice

Operating a cosmetology school is a complex integration of compliance, student recruitment, educational curriculum and a hands-on salon experience. For those working in this space, EDlumina Admissions can help optimize your admissions operations and increase enrollment.

We help new schools get up and running all the time. Once fully operational, the next step, and often one of the most difficult, is attracting new students. When clients ask us for help with increasing student enrollment, here's what we tell them.

Every year our clients have asked us for advice on ways to expand in the new year. If it’s on your radar too, here are four ways to start the conversation...

When you’re looking at accreditation, you’re likely coming up with lots of questions. What type of accreditation does my school need? Which accrediting agency is right for my school? Does my school even need to get accredited?

How do you avoid a ‘messy’ situation? Implement procedures to help avoid them in the first place. Make student file maintenance part of your everyday operations. Trust us – when your next site visit or audit comes up, you will be very glad you did!

Good question. And like the answer to most big questions, the answer is “it depends.” It depends on your institution. It depends on the accreditation you want to pursue. And it depends on that accrediting body’s regulations. But in general, there are a few ways to tell when you’re ready.

Since our founding over 13 years ago, we’ve served the education and training sectors in terms of aligning with state compliance requirements, providing software solutions for online and on-ground schools, organizations and regulators, operations consulting as well as curriculum development for a wide range of industries and purposes.