O'Briens Aveda Institute
For-profit College in Williston, VT.
- ✓ 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 strong at 88%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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. At 180 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 180 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $29,833 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $25,355 at the $0–30k band to $35,186 at $110k+. 51% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,253 — common but not automatic. 13% 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 · 103 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 | $25,355 |
| $30–48k | $27,622 |
| $48–75k | $28,623 |
| $75–110k | $31,562 |
| $110k+ | $35,186 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 24 of these 180 students, totalling $128,270 — an average of $5,345 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Chittenden County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026