Bryant &
Stratton College-Parma
Private Community College in Parma, OH. Six-year graduation rate 18%. Median 10-year earnings $32,568.
Ten-year median earnings of $32,568 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is the weak point: 18% graduate within six years. Graduates carry a median of $21,549 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.66 — elevated (above 0.60)
- ! Graduation rate 18% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 18% graduate within six years. A 14% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The 11:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 565 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 565 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,168 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $12,920 at $0–30k, $15,518 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 94% of students receive it, averaging $9,518. 79% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 75 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 | $12,920 |
| $30–48k | $11,134 |
| $48–75k | $8,480 |
| $75–110k | $16,627 |
| $110k+ | $15,518 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 448 of these 565 students, totalling $2,903,670 — an average of $6,481 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cuyahoga 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)