Salon Success Academy-Upland
For-profit College in Upland, CA. Median 10-year earnings $26,956.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $26,956, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,177 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. 95% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 — 428 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 428 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $17,111 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,268 at $0–30k, $21,692 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 55% of students at an average of $5,003. Most students borrow — 58% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 67 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 | $16,268 |
| $30–48k | $19,618 |
| $48–75k | $16,105 |
| $75–110k | $21,692 |
| $110k+ | $21,692 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 249 of these 428 students, totalling $1,372,556 — an average of $5,512 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Bernardino 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)