Mildred Elley-Pittsfield Campus
For-profit College in Pittsfield, MA. Median 10-year earnings $38,830.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,830, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates carry a median of $19,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
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 weak: only 43% of full-time first-years return, so roughly three in five leave after one year. A 6:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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. This is a small school — 172 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 172 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $26,245 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $27,662 at $0–30k, $29,993 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 64% of students at an average of $4,149. Borrowing is widespread: 66% take federal loans.
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 · 30 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 | $27,662 |
| $30–48k | $25,147 |
| $48–75k | $24,868 |
| $75–110k | $29,713 |
| $110k+ | $29,993 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 113 of these 172 students, totalling $844,814 — an average of $7,476 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Berkshire County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026