Cuyahoga Valley
Career Center
Public College in Brecksville, OH. Median 10-year earnings $47,914.
Ten years after entry, the median Cuyahoga Valley Career Center student earns $47,914 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Graduates leave owing a median of $12,964 — 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
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. 47% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. Part-time students actually return at a higher rate, 93%, which is unusual and suggests the school is built for them. At 6:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 189 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $18,588 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $26,996 at $0–30k, $32,003 at $75–110k. Grant aid reaches 52% of students at an average of $4,219. Federal borrowing reaches 35% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 10 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 | $26,996 |
| $30–48k | $19,158 |
| $48–75k | $24,343 |
| $75–110k | $32,003 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 67 of these 189 students, totalling $402,567 — an average of $6,008 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cuyahoga 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)