5300 West Pointe Plaza
Columbus, Ohio 43228

Located in a busy retail shopping complex in Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Beauty Academy and Spa Studio offers Cosmetology, esthetics, barber styling, and Nail Technology programs. The cosmetology program has two different tracks: a 1,500-hour fast track program for students interested in working as stylists but who do not immediately aspire to managing a salon, and a 1,800-hour managing cosmetology course that includes additional training pertaining to salon ownership and management. In both programs students develop the skills to excel at cutting, styling and coloring hair. They also learn a number of full-service spa treatments, including spa manicures and pedicures, special facials and other body treatments.

Although its facilities and curriculum are modern, the Nationwide Beauty Academy and Spa Studio has roots going back to 1935, when the Bustin Beauty School opened its doors. After two changes in ownership, the Bustin Beauty School grew to include several locations, a barber styling school and a residence hall, becoming the largest beauty school in Ohio. Nationwide Beauty Academy joined the group in 1997, incorporating a spa school in a few years later.

Today students can take classes at five Nationwide Beauty Academy and Spa Studio locations in and around Columbus. Training is dynamic, including lectures, demos, visual aids, textbook reviews, testing and first-hand experience working with clients. Many of the facilities feature full-service spa areas and classrooms with state-of-the-art equipment.

Quick Facts

The 300-hour nail technology course focuses on the mechanical and managerial skills students and can be completed in eight weeks. Students learn nail sculpting, how to apply artificial nails, how to give pedicures and other spa services. They even work in teams with cosmetology and esthetics students, simulating the demands of a luxury spa environment.

The managing esthetics program is completed after 750 hours. Students learn to perform services such as mud wraps, essential packs, aroma therapy, jacuzzi milk baths and spa pedicures, and develop managing skills.

Nationwide Beauty Academy and Spa Studio added a barber school in 1986. Its 1,800-hour training program includes basic hair cutting, style cutting, hair styling, facial shaving, facials, hairpieces and business management, and can be completed in 14 months.

The Karl Road location offers an Africentric program that teaches students how to chemically straighten hair, perform marcelling and use hot combs, weave, braid and use hair extensions.

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