Bryant &
Stratton College-Virginia Beach
Private Community College in Virginia Beach, VA. Six-year graduation rate 24%. Median 10-year earnings $32,568.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $32,568, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 24% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Median debt at graduation is $21,549, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
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 24% — below national average
Academics
Only 24% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. Transfer-out runs to 23% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The student-faculty ratio is 22:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,529 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $11,823 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $11,808 at $0–30k, $19,060 at $110k+. Most students get help: 91% receive grants worth $7,278 on average. 78% 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 · 139 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 | $11,808 |
| $30–48k | $20,103 |
| $48–75k | $14,371 |
| $75–110k | $13,803 |
| $110k+ | $19,060 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,194 of these 1,529 students, totalling $8,535,897 — an average of $7,149 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Virginia Beach City) — 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)