La Mesa, CA · Private for-profit · College Scorecard data · Updated September 10, 2026
California Hair Design Academy is a private for-profit institution in La Mesa, CA, where the highest award offered is a certificate. It enrolls about 98 undergraduate students, with a student-faculty ratio of 14:1. The school is listed in the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, which is the source for every figure on this page.
Official website: chdaschools.com
The published tuition for the largest program at California Hair Design Academy is $16,250 per year. This is the figure the Department of Education collects for schools whose students are concentrated in a single program, rather than a school-wide in-state rate.
For context, the average in-state tuition at the 288 California colleges that do report one is $16,639.
| Median earnings 10 years after enrolling | $19,347 |
| Graduation rate (within 150% of normal time) | 87% |
| Median debt among graduates who borrowed | $6,333 |
| Undergraduates receiving Pell grants | 48% |
| Undergraduates aged 25 and over | 53% |
| First-generation students | 54% |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard. Earnings and debt figures cover students who received federal financial aid.
The published tuition for California Hair Design Academy's largest program is $16,250 per year, according to College Scorecard. Program-level tuition is reported instead of a school-wide rate when a school's enrollment is concentrated in one program.
California Hair Design Academy enrolls about 98 undergraduate students. The student-faculty ratio is 14:1.
California Hair Design Academy is a private for-profit institution in La Mesa, CA. Its highest award is a certificate, according to College Scorecard.
College Scorecard reports in-state tuition for first-time, full-time undergraduates. California Hair Design Academy does not report such a cohort to the federal survey, so no school-wide rate is published — typically because the school serves transfer, returning or part-time students, or reports tuition by program instead.
Median earnings ten years after enrolling at California Hair Design Academy are $19,347 a year, according to College Scorecard.
The median debt among California Hair Design Academy graduates who borrowed is $6,333, according to College Scorecard.