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Cutting Edge Academy

For-profit College in Succasunna, NJ.

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Cutting Edge Academy · Campus
Median debt at grad
$9,500
Federal loan default
0%
Green Flags
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
94%
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
16:1

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. 94% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$29,054
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
32%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
32%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 165 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $29,054 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. 32% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. Federal borrowing reaches 32% of students.

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.

% receiving grants
67%
Average grant
$8,587

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 21 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 $31,106
$30–48k —
$48–75k —
$75–110k —
$110k+ —

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 52 of these 165 students, totalling $318,436 — an average of $6,124 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Morris County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,612/mo
1 bedroom
$1,822/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,205/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
3
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Cutting Edge Academy

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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