Private for-profit · Community college

The Salon Professional Academy-Evansville

Evansville, Indiana · Midsize city

0%
Transfer rate: $12,867
Avg net price: 81%
Grad / completion: $26,881
Median earnings

The Salon Professional Academy-Evansville is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Evansville, Indiana (midsize city setting), enrolling 162 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 162 undergradsMidsize cityCold winters

About Evansville, Indiana

Evansville is a city in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. There has been a continuous human presence in the area that became Evansville from at least 8000 BC by Paleo-Indians. Archaeologists have identified several archaic and ancient sites in and near Evansville, with the most complex at Angel Mounds. Bosse Field, a 7,180-seat baseball stadium in Garvin Park, was built in 1915 and is the third-oldest ballpark still in regular use in the United States. It is surpassed only by Fenway Park (1912) in Boston and Wrigley Field (1914) in Chicago. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Midsize city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 5 miles to Evansville, IN
To Great Lakes shore: 252 miles
Nearest airport: 4 miles to Evansville (EVV)

How The Salon Professional Academy-Evansville compares

Graduation rate81%

Higher than 79% · #8 of 46 in Indiana

First-year retention100%

Higher than 95%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$26,881

Higher than 23% · #26 of 42 in Indiana

Average net price$12,867

Cheaper than 58% · #9 cheapest of 51 in Indiana

Median debt at graduation$9,833

Lower than 48%

Student–faculty ratio20 : 1

Lower than 29%

Undergraduate enrollment162

Larger than 39%

Percentiles compare The Salon Professional Academy-Evansville 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 race / ethnicity

White81%
Black12%
Hispanic4.3%
Other or multiracial2.5%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 162
Student–faculty ratio: 20 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 19%
First-generation students: 52%
Students over 25: 21%
Median family income: $26,403

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: $12,867

Outcomes

Graduated: 81%
First-year retention: 100%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $20,637
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $26,881
Median debt at graduation: $9,833
Students with federal loans: 21%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 48%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $200

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

$12,462

$30–48k

—

$48–75k

$10,580

$75–110k

$13,735

$110k+

$17,458

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?

Grant aid from the school's own funds — the discount off sticker, on top of any federal or state help.

49%

of first-years get a grant from the school

$1,706

average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 49% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $1,706. Most of what lowers the price here is federal or state money, not the school's own funds.

Blends need-based and merit aid — IPEDS doesn't split the two, so a high number can mean generous merit scholarships, deep need-based aid, or both. Figures cover 35 full-time first-year undergraduates, 2022–23. Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years): $26,881
Typical debt at graduation: $9,833
Debt vs. one year's pay: 37%
Out-earn a HS grad: —

Typical debt would take roughly 3.7 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: 89°F
Winter low: 26°F
Annual rain: 47.9″
Annual snow: 10.8″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Evansville Regional AP, IN US station (4.4 mi from campus).

What The Salon Professional Academy-Evansville graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

119 grads$19k 1 yr$18k 5 yr$10k debt

119$18,674$18,456$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.