Is the cost of Paul Mitchell esthetician school and esthetician licensing deductible?

[brpinion]

Is the cost of Paul Mitchell esthetician school and esthetician licensing deductible?  You have to have a license to do this job and the total cost of school and licensing last year was over $20,000.  I paid this for my daughter who is a dependent. 

[Hal_Al]

 To be eligible for the tuition credits, the course must be taken at "an eligible institution". The school should be able to tell you if it is an eligible educational institution. In general, an eligible educational institution is an accredited college, university, vocational school, or other postsecondary educational institution, including accredited, public, nonprofit, and proprietary (privately-owned, profit-making) postsecondary institutions. Additionally, in order to be an eligible educational institution, the school must be eligible to participate in a student aid program administered by the Department of Education. If they issue a 1098-T they are probably an eligible institution.

Enter your school at the link below, to see if it's on the dept. of education list.

https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/home

U.S. Federal Student Aid Code List.  (download)

[Hal_Al]

At the web site type Paul Mitchell, not Paul Mitchell esthetician school 

[SweetieJean]

Perhaps the Lifetime Learning Credit?

[Hal_Al]

There are several Paul Mitchell schools on the DOE list.  At $20K tuition, I would think the student was half time or more and would qualify for the more generous American Opportunity Credit.