L'esprit Academy
For-profit College in Canton, MI. Median 10-year earnings $22,440.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $22,440, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $6,333 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.28 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. 97% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The part-time picture is harder: 87% return, against 97% full-time. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 448 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $23,341 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($21,711 versus $24,600), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 52% of students at an average of $3,821. Most students borrow — 59% 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 · 79 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 | $21,711 |
| $30–48k | $21,813 |
| $48–75k | $24,772 |
| $75–110k | $24,600 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 265 of these 448 students, totalling $1,607,560 — an average of $6,066 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Wayne County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026