The Salon
Professional Academy
For-profit College in Dagsboro, DE. Median 10-year earnings $23,718.
Students who entered The Salon Professional Academy reach a median of $23,718 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $6,333, 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.
- ✓ 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. Retention is strong at 89%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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. The undergraduate body is just 155, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 155 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $16,577 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($15,289 versus $21,760), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 43% of students receive any. 54% 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 · 55 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 | $15,289 |
| $30–48k | $14,572 |
| $48–75k | $16,464 |
| $75–110k | $20,087 |
| $110k+ | $21,760 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 83 of these 155 students, totalling $457,145 — an average of $5,508 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Sussex 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)