The Salon
Professional Academy-St Charles
For-profit College in St. Charles, MO. Median 10-year earnings $34,900.
Students who entered The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles reach a median of $34,900 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $8,589.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — 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. 92% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The 14:1 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 — 208 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 208 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,499 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $9,498 at $0–30k, $15,693 at $110k+. 80% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,487 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 50% 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 · 56 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 | $9,498 |
| $30–48k | $10,348 |
| $48–75k | $15,548 |
| $75–110k | $15,494 |
| $110k+ | $15,693 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 104 of these 208 students, totalling $845,554 — an average of $8,130 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (St. Charles County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026