Fortis Institute-Nashville
For-profit College in Nashville, TN. Six-year graduation rate 43%. Median 10-year earnings $32,886.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $32,886, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 43%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $12,346.
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: 43% finish inside six years. 43% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. At 28:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. 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 — 392 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 392 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $28,679 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price varies modestly by income — $28,620 at $0–30k against $35,598 at $75–110k — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 81% of students at an average of $6,414. Borrowing is widespread: 74% 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 · 40 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 | $28,620 |
| $30–48k | $28,065 |
| $48–75k | $30,668 |
| $75–110k | $35,598 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 292 of these 392 students, totalling $2,483,002 — an average of $8,503 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Davidson 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)