Private for-profit · Community college

The Salon Professional Academy-Battle Creek

Battle Creek, Michigan · Small city

0%
Transfer rate: $21,073
Avg net price: 80%
Grad / completion: $21,504
Median earnings

The Salon Professional Academy-Battle Creek is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Battle Creek, Michigan (small city setting), enrolling 49 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 49 undergradsSmall cityCold wintersSnowy

About Battle Creek, Michigan

Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County, Michigan, United States, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. The first permanent European settlements in Battle Creek Township, after the removal of the Potawatomi to a reservation, began about 1831. Westward migration from New York and New England had increased to Michigan following the completion of the Erie Canal in New York in 1824. The local daily newspapers are The Battle Creek Shopper and the newspaper of record is the Battle Creek Enquirer, owned and operated by Gannett. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Small city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 19 miles to Kalamazoo, MI
To Great Lakes shore: 55 miles
Nearest airport: 17 miles to Kalamazoo/Battle Creek (AZO)

How The Salon Professional Academy-Battle Creek compares

Graduation rate80%

Higher than 77% · #19 of 96 in Michigan

First-year retention100%

Higher than 95%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$21,504

Higher than 8% · #75 of 88 in Michigan

Average net price$21,073

Cheaper than 28% · #78 cheapest of 94 in Michigan

Median debt at graduation$6,333

Lower than 90%

Student–faculty ratio20 : 1

Lower than 29%

Undergraduate enrollment49

Larger than 13%

Percentiles compare The Salon Professional Academy-Battle Creek 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 Michigan.

Student body

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White51%
Black20%
Hispanic8.2%
Other or multiracial20%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 49
Student–faculty ratio: 20 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 64%
First-generation students: —
Students over 25: 45%
Median family income: $16,421

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: $21,073

Outcomes

Graduated: 80%
First-year retention: 100%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $17,593
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $21,504
Median debt at graduation: $6,333
Students with federal loans: 65%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 31%

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

$19,225

$30–48k

$22,922

$48–75k

—

$75–110k

—

$110k+

—

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): $21,504
Typical debt at graduation: $6,333
Debt vs. one year's pay: 29%
Out-earn a HS grad: —

Typical debt would take roughly 2.9 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Strong value

Graduates here tend to earn well relative to what they borrow — typical debt pays back fast, and most out-earn a high-school graduate.

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: 17°F
Annual rain: 31.5″
Annual snow: 64.6″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Battle Creek Kellogg AP, MI US station (1.5 mi from campus).

What The Salon Professional Academy-Battle Creek graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

36 grads— 1 yr$30k 5 yr— debt

36—$29,685—Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services

6 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

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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.