Private for-profit · Community college
Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy
Joliet, Illinois · Large suburb
- 9%
- Transfer rate
- $13,273
- Avg net price
- 82%
- Grad / completion
- $30,341
- Median earnings
Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Joliet, Illinois (large suburb setting), enrolling 53 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.
About Joliet, Illinois
Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S state of Illinois. In 1673, Louis Jolliet, along with Father Jacques Marquette, paddled up the Des Plaines River and camped on a huge earthwork mound, a few miles south of present-day Joliet. The Rialto Square Theatre, a favorite haunt of Al Capone and filming location for scenes from Kevin Bacon's film Stir of Echoes, is on Chicago Street, downtown. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Large suburb
- Highest degree offered
- Certificate
- Nearest big city
- 36 miles to Chicago, IL
- To Great Lakes shore
- 35 miles
- Nearest airport
- 27 miles to Chicago Midway (MDW) · major hub
How Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy compares
Higher than 80% · #21 of 122 in Illinois
Higher than 75%
Higher than 33% · #74 of 113 in Illinois
Cheaper than 57% · #67 cheapest of 123 in Illinois
Lower than 97%
Larger than 14%
Percentiles compare Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy 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
- White49%
- Black11%
- Hispanic38%
- Other or multiracial1.9%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 53
- Student–faculty ratio
- 5 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 32%
- First-generation students
- —
- Students over 25
- 7%
- Median family income
- $19,691
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
- $13,273
Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.
Outcomes
- Graduated
- 82%
- First-year retention
- 86%
- Transferred to another college
- 9%
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $20,060
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $30,341
- Median debt at graduation
- —
- Students with federal loans
- 40%
- Paying down their loans (1 year in)
- 50%
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $100
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 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.
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.
Does the school pay you to attend?
Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy funds essentially no grants of its own — almost all aid here comes from federal (Pell), state, or outside sources rather than the school's own discount. Its sticker price is what it is.
Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid, 2022–23 full-time first-year undergraduates.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 84°F
- Winter low
- 17°F
- Annual rain
- 38″
- Annual snow
- 16.9″
Average temperature
HighLowAverage precipitation (inches)
NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Joliet Brandon RD Dam, IL US station (2.7 mi from campus).
What Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy graduates study — and earn
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.











