COLLECTIV Academy-Worcester
For-profit College in Worcester, MA.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
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 is strong at 90%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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 326 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 326 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $23,044 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $23,600 at $0–30k, $29,098 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 51% of students at an average of $5,465. Borrowing is widespread: 73% take federal loans.
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 · 66 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 | $23,600 |
| $30–48k | $22,503 |
| $48–75k | $24,439 |
| $75–110k | $29,098 |
| $110k+ | $29,098 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 238 of these 326 students, totalling $1,281,817 — an average of $5,386 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Worcester County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026