Montana Academy
of Salons
For-profit College in Great Falls, MT. Median 10-year earnings $28,841.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $28,841, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,833.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.34 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 100% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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 265 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $15,001 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($15,351 versus $20,851), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 35% of students receive any. Federal borrowing reaches 38% of students.
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 · 171 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 | $15,351 |
| $30–48k | $13,953 |
| $48–75k | $16,866 |
| $75–110k | $19,208 |
| $110k+ | $20,851 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 101 of these 265 students, totalling $746,226 — an average of $7,388 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cascade County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)