Fremont University
For-profit Community College in Cerritos, CA. Six-year graduation rate 39%. Median 10-year earnings $39,003.
Students who entered Fremont University reach a median of $39,003 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Only 40% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Median debt at graduation is $20,000, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
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
A six-year graduation rate of 40% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. 0% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. A 26% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. A 22:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. As a for-profit four-year institution, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 246 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $34,045 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $33,323 at $0–30k, $39,537 at $75–110k. Grant aid reaches 72% of students at an average of $5,875. Most students borrow — 67% 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 · 85 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 | $33,323 |
| $30–48k | $37,211 |
| $48–75k | $34,248 |
| $75–110k | $39,537 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 165 of these 246 students, totalling $1,658,179 — an average of $10,050 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles 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)