Arclabs
For-profit College in Piedmont, SC.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. 85% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The part-time picture is harder: 67% return, against 85% full-time. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,244 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $25,713 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $26,334 at $0–30k, $30,799 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 65% of students at an average of $5,668. Most students borrow — 59% take federal loans to cover the gap.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 446 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $26,334 |
| $30–48k | $27,343 |
| $48–75k | $27,644 |
| $75–110k | $28,803 |
| $110k+ | $30,799 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 740 of these 1,244 students, totalling $5,852,958 — an average of $7,909 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Anderson County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)