Dorsey College-Wayne
For-profit College in Wayne, 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. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $13,000.
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
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Retention is weak: only 39% of full-time first-years return, so roughly three in five leave after one year. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 203 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $31,918 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $31,774 at $0–30k, $35,563 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 92% of students receive it, averaging $5,050. 90% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 46 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 | $31,774 |
| $30–48k | $31,501 |
| $48–75k | $31,037 |
| $75–110k | $36,763 |
| $110k+ | $35,563 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 183 of these 203 students, totalling $1,230,764 — an average of $6,725 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