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School-West Mifflin
For-profit College in West Mifflin, PA. Median 10-year earnings $25,073.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $25,073, 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. Just 44% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Part-time students actually return at a higher rate, 73%, which is unusual and suggests the school is built for them. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Being a for-profit short-program school 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 118 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,978 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($16,351 versus $22,852), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $5,304. Borrowing is widespread: 60% 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 · 38 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 | $16,351 |
| $30–48k | $15,457 |
| $48–75k | $18,201 |
| $75–110k | $21,004 |
| $110k+ | $22,852 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 71 of these 118 students, totalling $575,897 — an average of $8,111 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Allegheny 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)