Don Roberts
School of Hair Design
For-profit College in Schererville, IN. Median 10-year earnings $19,976.
Students who entered Don Roberts School of Hair Design reach a median of $19,976 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $8,025, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The 7:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 48 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,838 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($16,005 versus $19,189), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 38% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 46% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 46 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $16,005 |
| $30–48k | $17,956 |
| $48–75k | $15,649 |
| $75–110k | $19,189 |
| $110k+ | $19,189 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 22 of these 48 students, totalling $119,713 — an average of $5,442 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lake County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026