Benjamin Franklin
Cummings Institute of Technology
Private Community College in Boston, MA. Six-year graduation rate 46%. Median 10-year earnings $57,556.
Students who entered Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology land at a median of $57,556 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 46%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $12,000, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.21 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
46% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention is weak: only 50% of full-time first-years return, so roughly one in two leave after one year. The 10:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. This is a small school — 590 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 417 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $14,841 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($13,664 versus $21,375), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Most students get help: 89% receive grants worth $13,427 on average. 52% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 153 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 | $13,664 |
| $30–48k | $15,595 |
| $48–75k | $15,357 |
| $75–110k | $19,321 |
| $110k+ | $21,375 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 217 of these 417 students, totalling $1,243,303 — an average of $5,730 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Suffolk 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)