CET-Alexandria
Private College in Alexandria, VA.
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit short-program school, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. This is a small school — 91 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Average net price after grant aid is $20,961 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($19,629 versus $25,369), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Only 43% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Federal borrowing reaches 35% of 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 | $19,629 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | $21,690 |
| $75–110k | $25,369 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Fairfax County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026