Cambridge College
Private College in Boston, MA. Six-year graduation rate 13%. Median 10-year earnings $45,998.
Students who entered Cambridge College land at a median of $45,998 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 13% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Median debt at graduation is $21,791, 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
- ! Graduation rate 13% — below national average
Academics
Only 13% finish within six years, so roughly nine in ten students leave without the credential. First-year retention of 100% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. Transfer-out runs to 13% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 12:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 592 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $31,072 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. About 61% get grants averaging $4,144, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 48% 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 · 2 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 | — |
| $30–48k | $31,072 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 282 of these 592 students, totalling $2,129,470 — an average of $7,551 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)