Paul Mitchell
the School-Arkansas
For-profit College in Fayetteville, AR. Median 10-year earnings $20,077.
Ten-year median earnings of $20,077 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,833.
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
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Retention is strong at 95%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 9:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. This is a small school — 156 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 156 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,177 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $13,130 at $0–30k, $19,771 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 55% of students at an average of $5,751. Federal borrowing reaches 50% 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 · 48 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 | $13,130 |
| $30–48k | $11,182 |
| $48–75k | $15,808 |
| $75–110k | $18,852 |
| $110k+ | $19,771 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 78 of these 156 students, totalling $594,284 — an average of $7,619 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Washington County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)