Milan Institute-Palm Desert
For-profit College in Palm Desert, CA. Median 10-year earnings $29,491.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $29,491, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,702 — 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 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.0 — limited economic uplift documented
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. Retention is strong at 90%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 16:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 503 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $24,104 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($24,182 versus $31,784), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 65% get grants averaging $3,751, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 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 · 378 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 | $24,182 |
| $30–48k | $25,684 |
| $48–75k | $25,735 |
| $75–110k | $28,722 |
| $110k+ | $31,784 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 296 of these 503 students, totalling $1,277,536 — an average of $4,316 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Riverside County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026