Mei Barber School
For-profit College in Brownsville, TX.
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. Retention is strong at 88%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 25:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. 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. This is a small school — 120 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 120 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $4,079 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $4,041 at $0–30k, $11,008 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 76% of students at an average of $7,480. 12% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 77 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 | $4,041 |
| $30–48k | $4,297 |
| $48–75k | $3,613 |
| $75–110k | $8,324 |
| $110k+ | $11,008 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 14 of these 120 students, totalling $94,730 — an average of $6,766 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cameron County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026