Fortis College-Cuyahoga Falls
For-profit College in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Six-year graduation rate 47%. Median 10-year earnings $34,509.
Ten-year median earnings of $34,509 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. The six-year graduation rate is 47%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. 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
Completion is middling: 47% finish inside six years. Retention is weak: only 45% of full-time first-years return, so roughly three in five leave after one year. The 31:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. This is a for-profit two-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 491 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 491 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $23,748 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($22,348 versus $29,709), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 81% of students at an average of $7,455. Most students borrow — 80% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 56 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 | $22,348 |
| $30–48k | $26,314 |
| $48–75k | $29,500 |
| $75–110k | $26,625 |
| $110k+ | $29,709 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 395 of these 491 students, totalling $3,195,028 — an average of $8,089 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Summit County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026