Capri College-Dubuque
For-profit College in Dubuque, IA. Median 10-year earnings $28,266.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $28,266, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,600 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. First-year retention of 86% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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. At 246 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 245 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $14,018 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($13,322 versus $20,162), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 49% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. About 49% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 68 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 | $13,322 |
| $30–48k | $9,913 |
| $48–75k | $13,913 |
| $75–110k | $19,969 |
| $110k+ | $20,162 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 120 of these 245 students, totalling $741,448 — an average of $6,179 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Dubuque 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)