Nashville Film Institute
For-profit College in Nashville, TN. Six-year graduation rate 86%.
Completion is a strength: 86% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $5,500 — modest by four-year standards.
- ✓ Graduation rate 86% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
86% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 77% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a for-profit two-year institution. 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 — 56 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 56 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $24,128 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $24,318 at $0–30k, $28,609 at $110k+. Only 38% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Federal borrowing reaches 45% of students.
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 · 26 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 | $24,318 |
| $30–48k | $24,433 |
| $48–75k | $29,855 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $28,609 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 25 of these 56 students, totalling $179,140 — an average of $7,166 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Davidson County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026