The curriculum for students enrolled in a cosmetology program must be fifteen hundred hours of training. A school or licensed instructor may not permit a student to render clinical services until a student has completed twenty percent of the total hours of instruction required. The instruction in all subject areas collectively must meet or exceed the overall minimum didactic and practical hours required for the entire fifteen-hundred-hour cosmetology curriculum and must include:

Cleaning, disinfecting, and safety: Didactic: 35 hours Practical: 40 hours	Total 75 hours
Hair cutting: Didactic: 55 hours Practical: 145 hours	Total 200 hours
Hair styling: Didactic: 45 hours Practical: 130 hours	Total 175 hours
Manicuring: Didactic: 35 hours Practical: 65 hours	Total 100 hours
Esthetics: Didactic: 80 hours Practical: 120 hours	Total 200 hours
Chemical services: To include at minimum: hair coloring, permanent waving and relaxing: Didactic: 130 hours Practical: 285 hours	Total 425 hours

Additional subjects and law:	Total 150 hours
Didactic: 120 hours
Practical: 30 hours
Business:	Total 50 hours
Didactic: 40 hours
Practical: 10 hours
Professionalism, ethics, and career development:	Total 50 hours
Didactic: 40 hours
Practical: 10 hours
Enrichment:	Total 75 hours
Total hours	1,500 hours

History: Effective July 1, 2000; amended effective January 1, 2012; January 1, 2017; April 1, 2022; January 1, 2026.

General Authority: NDCC 43-11-05

Law Implemented: NDCC 43-11-16