Blue Cliff College-Alexandria
For-profit College in Alexandria, LA. Six-year graduation rate 34%. Median 10-year earnings $22,177.
Ten-year median earnings of $22,177 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Only 34% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,500.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 34% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 34% graduate within six years. 24% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. At 30:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. 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 — 794 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 794 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,253 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $30–48k bands is narrow ($15,519 versus $20,658), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 80% of students at an average of $4,541. Most students borrow — 78% 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 · 29 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 | $15,519 |
| $30–48k | $20,658 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 616 of these 794 students, totalling $4,288,760 — an average of $6,962 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Rapides Parish) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026