Fortis College-Baton Rouge
For-profit College in Baton Rouge, LA. Six-year graduation rate 50%. Median 10-year earnings $32,886.
Students who entered Fortis College-Baton Rouge reach a median of $32,886 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 50%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $12,346 — 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
Six-year completion sits at 50%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. 63% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. The 32:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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 467 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $25,781 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($25,690 versus $29,280), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 87% of students get grant aid averaging $6,397, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 69% 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 · 71 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 | $25,690 |
| $30–48k | $26,614 |
| $48–75k | $26,627 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $29,280 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 324 of these 467 students, totalling $2,555,618 — an average of $7,888 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (East Baton Rouge Parish) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)