Paul Mitchell
the School-Fresno
For-profit College in Fresno, CA. Median 10-year earnings $29,671.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $29,671, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $11,277 — modest by four-year standards.
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
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. 93% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 25:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 331 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $22,647 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($21,630 versus $28,151), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 73% of students at an average of $4,714. Most students borrow — 60% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 67 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 | $21,630 |
| $30–48k | $21,757 |
| $48–75k | $24,174 |
| $75–110k | $27,984 |
| $110k+ | $28,151 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 199 of these 331 students, totalling $1,131,486 — an average of $5,686 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Fresno County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026