College for
Creative Studies
Private College in Detroit, MI. Six-year graduation rate 71%. Median 10-year earnings $44,860.
Students who entered College for Creative Studies land at a median of $44,860 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 71% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $26,000, 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
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 92% of applicants are accepted. Only 1,079 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. Yield sits at 25% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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71% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 82%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. 14% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 10:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,285 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $36,055 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $30,267 at the $0–30k band to $38,580 at $110k+. 98% of students get grant aid averaging $26,478, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 57% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 258 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 | $30,267 |
| $30–48k | $33,152 |
| $48–75k | $33,647 |
| $75–110k | $33,667 |
| $110k+ | $38,580 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 734 of these 1,285 students, totalling $4,783,537 — an average of $6,517 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Wayne 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)