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Hair Professionals Career College

Sycamore, Illinois Private for-profit Less than 2-year Small suburb

Overview

Hair Professionals Career College is a private for-profit career and technical school based in Sycamore, Illinois. The campus sits in a small suburban area. It enrolled 55 students in fall 2024.

Hair Professionals Career College offers certificates across 4 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Cosmetology, Aesthetician/Esthetician and Skin Care Specialist, and Cosmetology, Barber/Styling, and Nail Instructor. It awarded 30 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

The school has an open admission policy. 67% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1.

Mission

Our staff of licensed instructors, combined with a state-licensed facility, is dedicated to job training for the beauty industry. Each student, after completing their course of training, will be able to demonstrate job entry skills in required subjects, take and pass a final school examination in both theoretical and practical skills and qualify for examination to obtain an Illinois license, if applicable.

Mission statement as reported by Hair Professionals Career College

Key figures

Open
Admission policy
55
Students enrolled
67%
First-year retention
30
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
4
Programs and majors
16:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

Campus

Program levels

Certificate

Programs and majors offered 4

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Culinary, Cosmetology and Personal Services 4

Admissions

Admission policy
Open admission

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

First-year retention, full-time students
67%
First-year retention, part-time students
80%
Student-to-faculty ratio
16:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Certificates under 1 year
13
Certificates of 1 to 2 years
17

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
55
Undergraduates, fall 2024
55
Full-time, fall 2024
38%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
122
Full-time, 2024-25
31%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
97%
Men
3%
White
57%
Hispanic or Latino
20%
Black or African American
11%
Two or more races
8%
Race or ethnicity unknown
4%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Students studying fully online
0%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Small suburb
Academic calendar
Continuous
President
Wanda Zachary
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling, Job placement for graduates

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