Private for-profit · Community college

Hair Professionals Career College

Sycamore, Illinois · Small suburb

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Transfer rate: $19,133
Avg net price: 67%
Grad / completion: $23,568
Median earnings

Hair Professionals Career College is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Sycamore, Illinois (small suburb setting), enrolling 55 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 55 undergradsSmall suburbCold wintersSnowy

About Sycamore, Illinois

Sycamore is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The first European settlers to the Sycamore-area arrived in 1835 and concentrated themselves mostly north of the Kishwaukee River (the name of which means sycamore) and the present site of Sycamore. The original town was platted by a New Yorker named Christian Sharer. Sycamore is home to the annual Sycamore Pumpkin Festival, a pumpkin festival established in 1962 when local resident Wally Thurow began displaying pumpkins on his front lawn. The festival features many activities, a carnival, and a parade. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Small suburb
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 29 miles to Rockford, IL
To Great Lakes shore: 50 miles
Nearest airport: 25 miles to Chicago Rockford (RFD)

How Hair Professionals Career College compares

Graduation rate67%

Higher than 57% · #43 of 122 in Illinois

First-year retention67%

Higher than 37%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$23,568

Higher than 13% · #103 of 113 in Illinois

Average net price$19,133

Cheaper than 35% · #85 cheapest of 123 in Illinois

Median debt at graduation$9,833

Lower than 48%

Student–faculty ratio16 : 1

Lower than 49%

Undergraduate enrollment55

Larger than 15%

Percentiles compare Hair Professionals Career College with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Illinois.

Student body

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White44%
Black15%
Hispanic25%
Other or multiracial16%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 55
Student–faculty ratio: 16 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 42%
First-generation students: 39%
Students over 25: 25%
Median family income: $20,771

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition: —
Room & board: —
Total cost of attendance: —
Average net price: $19,133

Outcomes

Graduated: 67%
First-year retention: 67%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $20,915
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $23,568
Median debt at graduation: $9,833
Students with federal loans: 44%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 20%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $100

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k

$17,775

$30–48k

$16,296

$48–75k

—

$75–110k

$21,668

$110k+

$23,691

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years): $23,568
Typical debt at graduation: $9,833
Debt vs. one year's pay: 42%
Out-earn a HS grad: 16%

Typical debt would take roughly 4.2 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

Campus climate

Summer high: 83°F
Winter low: 13°F
Annual rain: 37.2″
Annual snow: 33.1″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, DE Kalb, IL US station (3.5 mi from campus).

What Hair Professionals Career College graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

28 grads$12k 1 yr$25k 5 yr$10k debt

28$11,529$25,121$10,104

Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.