Academia Dimech’s – Barbería Profesional, San José

Dimech’s is a long-established San José beauty academy near Plaza González Víquez, claiming more than thirty years and describing itself as the Costa Rican institution with the most experience dedicated to professional training.

Its barbering course runs one three-hour session a week, and the timetable is the most flexible of any provider in this directory: fourteen separate slots across Monday to Saturday, spanning mornings, afternoons and early evenings. If you work irregular hours, that alone may decide it. The academy says it complies with national norms for technical education and that its certificate has international recognition, but it names no accreditation from the education ministry or the national training institute, so treat the award as its own.

Two gaps: neither the total programme length nor the price is published, so both need establishing directly. The academy also teaches professional styling at several levels, manicure, makeup, women’s cutting and hairstyling.