Brown Aveda Institute-Mentor
For-profit College in Mentor, OH. Six-year graduation rate 86%. Median 10-year earnings $27,446.
Students who entered Brown Aveda Institute-Mentor reach a median of $27,446 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 86% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $7,267.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 86% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 86% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention of 79% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The 11:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. As a for-profit two-year institution, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. This is a small school — 219 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 219 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,674 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $14,642 at $0–30k, $21,061 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 52% of students at an average of $4,822. Most students borrow — 73% 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 · 62 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 | $14,642 |
| $30–48k | $15,666 |
| $48–75k | $17,709 |
| $75–110k | $20,811 |
| $110k+ | $21,061 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 159 of these 219 students, totalling $844,919 — an average of $5,314 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lake 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)