Private for-profit · Community college

Summit Salon Academy-Kokomo

Kokomo, Indiana · Small city

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Transfer rate: $20,739
Avg net price: 68%
Grad / completion: $23,226
Median earnings

Summit Salon Academy-Kokomo is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Kokomo, Indiana (small city setting), enrolling 98 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 98 undergradsSmall cityCold wintersSnowy

About Kokomo, Indiana

Kokomo is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Indiana, United States. Kokomo is thought to have been born in 1775 and died in 1838. The Kid from Kokomo (1939; also sometimes called Broadway Cavalier) is a comedy film about an orphan from Kokomo who refuses to box until his mother is found. The film was based on a story by Dalton Trumbo. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Small city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 49 miles to Indianapolis, IN
To Great Lakes shore: 96 miles
Nearest airport: 44 miles to Purdue University (LAF)

How Summit Salon Academy-Kokomo compares

Graduation rate68%

Higher than 58% · #18 of 46 in Indiana

First-year retention60%

Higher than 23%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$23,226

Higher than 12% · #35 of 42 in Indiana

Average net price$20,739

Cheaper than 29% · #33 cheapest of 51 in Indiana

Median debt at graduation$8,973

Lower than 66%

Student–faculty ratio16 : 1

Lower than 49%

Undergraduate enrollment98

Larger than 28%

Percentiles compare Summit Salon Academy-Kokomo 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 Indiana.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women8890%
Men1010%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White78%
Black5.1%
Hispanic11%
Asian1.0%
Other or multiracial5.1%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 98
Student–faculty ratio: 16 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 51%
First-generation students: 62%
Students over 25: 34%
Median family income: $19,507

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: $20,739

Outcomes

Graduated: 68%
First-year retention: 60%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $21,353
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $23,226
Median debt at graduation: $8,973
Students with federal loans: 58%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 35%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $50

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

$18,043

$30–48k

$17,874

$48–75k

$22,022

$75–110k

$23,995

$110k+

$23,995

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?

Summit Salon Academy-Kokomo 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.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years): $23,226
Typical debt at graduation: $8,973
Debt vs. one year's pay: 39%
Out-earn a HS grad: —

Typical debt would take roughly 3.9 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: 84°F
Winter low: 17°F
Annual rain: 44.4″
Annual snow: 34.1″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Kokomo 3 Wsw, IN US station (3.8 mi from campus).

What Summit Salon Academy-Kokomo graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

83 grads$18k 1 yr$23k 5 yr$10k debt

83$17,556$23,049$9,833

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.