Ohio Cosmetologist, Manicurist and Esthetician CE

PDH Beauty Academy helps you complete your CE quickly and conveniently. Purchase our affordable at-home study course and complete the exam at your own pace.

Ohio Cosmetologists, Advanced Cosmetologists, Manicurists, Advanced Manicurists, Estheticians, and Advanced Estheticians can easily complete their continuing education requirements in order to maintain their licenses. Our courses are approved by the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology and will fulfill 3 of your 4 hours of continuing education requirements.

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Ohio Cosmetology Continuing Education Requirements

Reduced CE Hours for 2023 Renewals!
As of March 8, 2022, Ohio Cosmetologists, Advanced Cosmetologists, Manicurists, Advanced Manicurists, Estheticians, and Advanced Estheticians are required to complete 4 hours of continuing education every 2 years. The 4 hours must include 1 hour of Board Laws & Rules, 3 hours of Safety and Infection Control. The 1-hour Rules and Law course is ONLY provided by the Board. Our course is the 3-hours of Infection Control and Safety. The next deadline for your continuing education is January 15, 2023.

Not all online and correspondence continuing education courses are approved in Ohio for license renewal, so before taking a course other than ours, you will want to make sure that the course is approved. If your continuing education provider is not approved by the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology, then the course will not count toward the continuing education hours needed to renew your license.

The (3) hours of CE concerning Infection Control and Safety: If the Safety and Infection Control course is taken as a “stand-alone” course, it may be applied to multiple licenses held.

Still have questions about your continuing education requirements or about how our courses work? Read on!

How does this course work?

Purchase the course below by clicking the “Add to Cart” button.
You will receive an emailed order receipt with a link to register yourself to ensure your info is submitted to the state once you complete the exam. Once you submit this information, you will receive an email with a link to download your eBooklet course.
Take the exam. SELECT THE LINK TO THE EXAM VERSION (A, B or E) FROM YOUR ORDER RECEIPT THAT MATCHES YOUR BOOKLET VERSION (A, B or E). This ensures that the online exam will be identical to the one in your booklet. The links to these exams can be found in your order receipt.
Once you pass the exam, your certificate of completion will immediately be available for you to save/print.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you report my results to the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology?
Yes, we report all continuing education results directly to the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology. That way, you can easily renew your license.

Why do you only offer 3 hours when 4 hours are required?
We only offer 3 of the required 4 hours because the one hour of Board Laws and Rules has to come from the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology itself.

I am over 65 years old. Do I still need to take continuing education?
Licensees who are age 65 or older before 10/3/2022, or who have held a board license for 30+ years before 10/3/2022, are not required to complete continuing education.

Do you offer any continuing education training that is not correspondence?
We offer correspondence continuing education to renew your Ohio Cosmetology license. We do not offer any classroom or online continuing education courses for Ohio.

Do you provide me with a certificate of completion when I finish your continuing education course?
Yes, all graduates of our Ohio cosmetology continuing education course will receive a certificate of completion. If you complete the exam online, you will be able to immediately print your certificate. If you mail in your answer sheets, we will either email, mail, or fax the certificate to you.

Do I need to provide my certificate to the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology to prove that I completed my continuing education when I renew my license?
No. Once you complete our continuing education course for Ohio and receive your certificate of completion from us, just save it for your records. Ohio requires that you save the continuing education certificate for a period of two renewals – basically 4 years.

Do you renew my license for me?
No. Completing your continuing education credits does not complete the renewal of your license. Once you have completed all of your required continuing education, you must pay the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology the license renewal fees, as we cannot do that for you.

Are these courses approved?
Yes, our courses are approved by the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology and will fulfill 3 of your 4 hours of continuing education requirements.

What if I still have questions about completing my continuing education?
No problem. Just call our continuing education specialists at (888) 290-9739 or email us at support@beautyce.com and we can walk you through what you need to do to complete your Ohio cosmetology continuing education requirements.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to complete our cosmetology continuing education courses in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Akron or Canton; our correspondence cosmetology continuing education courses can be completed from anywhere. What are you waiting for? Get started today!