Taylor Andrews
Academy of Hair Design-West Jordan
For-profit College in West Jordan, UT. Median 10-year earnings $36,048.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $36,048, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $10,556 — 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 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 96% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 73% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled. The 13:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 236 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,713 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($16,767 versus $21,674), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 56% get grants averaging $4,666, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Federal borrowing reaches 54% 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 · 53 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 | $16,767 |
| $30–48k | $14,279 |
| $48–75k | $17,032 |
| $75–110k | $21,043 |
| $110k+ | $21,674 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 127 of these 236 students, totalling $803,285 — an average of $6,325 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Salt Lake County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026