-18%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles fell 18% between 2021 and 2024 (161 → 132).
Missouri · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles
St. Charles, Missouri. 117 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles
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.
+34%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles are 34% above 6-year earnings ($26.0k → $34.9k).
+10%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles rose 10% between 2017 and 2020 ($7.8k → $8.6k).
+31%
For-profit certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles are 31% above the for-profit certificate-predominant peer median ($34.9k vs $26.7k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Missouri
Each tile compares this institution to the Missouri median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$34,900+34% · 6→10y
Missouri median $40,979$26,030
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry83.3%
Missouri median 59.3%$8,243-13% · '11→'20
At program completion117+47% · '11→'24
latest IPEDS91.9%+15% · '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 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
3.1%Median federal debt $8,243 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $34,900 (10y after entry).
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.
+15%
The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles · retention rose
80.0% → 92.0%
+21%
The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles · undergrad enrollment rose
90 → 132
+111%
The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles · pell share rose
16.4% → 34.6%
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
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$73,183
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $13,814
- HS-only baseline · MO
- $35,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Missouri
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles graduates earn $X” — not “The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending The Salon Professional Academy-St Charles 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.