Dorsey College-Saginaw
For-profit College in Saginaw, MI. Median 10-year earnings $29,392.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $29,392, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,000 — modest by four-year standards.
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
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. 51% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. A 15:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Being a for-profit two-year institution 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. The undergraduate body is just 199, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 199 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $31,147 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $31,302 at $0–30k, $32,521 at $75–110k. Grant aid is widespread — 94% of students receive it, averaging $6,136. Borrowing is widespread: 90% 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 · 68 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 | $31,302 |
| $30–48k | $30,994 |
| $48–75k | $32,247 |
| $75–110k | $32,521 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 180 of these 199 students, totalling $1,247,985 — an average of $6,933 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Saginaw County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026