-25%
First-year retention
First-year retention at The Salon Professional Academy fell 25% between 2022 and 2024 (100.0% → 75.0%).
Pennsylvania · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
The Salon Professional Academy
Collegeville, Pennsylvania. 72 undergraduate students. 0 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.
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Pennsylvania
Each tile compares this institution to the Pennsylvania median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Pennsylvania median $49,859—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry89.5%
Pennsylvania median 66.1%—
At program completion72
latest IPEDS100.0%-25% · '22→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Pennsylvania
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.