Bay Area
Medical Academy
For-profit College in San Francisco, CA.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. First-year retention is 73% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. A 23:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual. This is a small school — 309 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 309 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $27,301 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $26,387 while those at $110k+ pay $39,369. 94% of students get grant aid averaging $13,723, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Only 24% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 103 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 | $26,387 |
| $30–48k | $26,081 |
| $48–75k | $28,569 |
| $75–110k | $33,247 |
| $110k+ | $39,369 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 73 of these 309 students, totalling $478,998 — an average of $6,562 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Francisco County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026