IBMC College
For-profit College in Fort Collins, CO. Six-year graduation rate 86%. Median 10-year earnings $34,432.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $34,432, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. 86% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $8,750, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 86% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.5 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 86% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention is weak: only 40% of full-time first-years return, so roughly three in five leave after one year. 14% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a for-profit two-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 727 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $34,590 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $28,848 at the $0–30k band to $36,991 at $110k+. 80% of students receive grant aid, averaging $9,451 — common but not automatic. 74% 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 · 348 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 | $28,848 |
| $30–48k | $34,010 |
| $48–75k | $35,523 |
| $75–110k | $36,109 |
| $110k+ | $36,991 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 536 of these 727 students, totalling $3,797,560 — an average of $7,085 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Larimer 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)