Paul Mitchell
the School-Atlanta
For-profit College in Atlanta, GA. Median 10-year earnings $21,775.
Ten-year median earnings of $21,775 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $12,500, a light load against those earnings.
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. First-year retention is 77% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. At 15:1, 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 — 433 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 433 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,828 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($17,775 versus $24,467), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 57% get grants averaging $5,756, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 58% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 82 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 | $17,775 |
| $30–48k | $20,802 |
| $48–75k | $21,718 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $24,467 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 250 of these 433 students, totalling $1,868,113 — an average of $7,472 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Fulton County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026