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Hair Design Academy
For-profit College in Joliet, IL. Median 10-year earnings $30,341.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. Retention is strong at 86%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 5:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. This is a small school — 73 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 73 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,273 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price varies modestly by income — $13,655 at $0–30k against $18,572 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Only 41% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. 40% 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 · 44 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 | $13,655 |
| $30–48k | $12,191 |
| $48–75k | $18,572 |
| $75–110k | $18,572 |
| $110k+ | $18,572 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 29 of these 73 students, totalling $126,257 — an average of $4,354 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Will County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026