The Salon
Professional Academy-San Jose
For-profit College in San Jose, CA.
- ✓ 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 91%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The 24:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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. This is a small school — 346 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 346 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $18,418 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price varies modestly by income — $18,209 at $0–30k against $20,998 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. About 64% get grants averaging $4,772, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Federal borrowing reaches 47% 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 · 126 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 | $18,209 |
| $30–48k | $17,821 |
| $48–75k | $20,831 |
| $75–110k | $20,092 |
| $110k+ | $20,998 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 161 of these 346 students, totalling $797,421 — an average of $4,953 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Santa Clara County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026