-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at The Salon Professional Academy fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.2% → 0.0%).
Arkansas · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
The Salon Professional Academy
Sherwood, Arkansas. 92 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at The Salon Professional Academy
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
-36%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at The Salon Professional Academy fell 36% between 2017 and 2020 ($9.8k → $6.3k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Arkansas
Each tile compares this institution to the Arkansas median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—-16% · 6→8y
Arkansas median $34,871$22,662
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry82.9%
Arkansas median 47.1%$6,333-36% · '11→'20
At program completion92+68% · '11→'24
latest IPEDS100.0%+19% · '11→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+19%
The Salon Professional Academy · retention rose
75.0% → 89.5%
+22%
The Salon Professional Academy · undergrad enrollment rose
63 → 106
-36%
The Salon Professional Academy · median debt fell
$9,833 → $6,333
+22%
The Salon Professional Academy · pell share rose
38.3% → 46.9%
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Arkansas
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“The Salon Professional Academy graduates earn $X” — not “The Salon Professional Academy makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending The Salon Professional Academy caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.