Fortis College
For-profit College in Mobile, AL. Median 10-year earnings $26,652.
Ten-year median earnings of $26,652 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — 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. 43% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The 31:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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. At 480 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 480 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $19,074 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The income table below is the number that matters — $18,949 at $0–30k versus $27,451 at $110k+. About 84% get grants averaging $6,342, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 70% 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 · 191 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 | $18,949 |
| $30–48k | $19,336 |
| $48–75k | $20,247 |
| $75–110k | $22,065 |
| $110k+ | $27,451 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 334 of these 480 students, totalling $2,322,285 — an average of $6,953 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Mobile County) — 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)