Paul Mitchell
the School-Rapid City
For-profit College in Rapid City, SD. Median 10-year earnings $29,547.
Students who entered Paul Mitchell the School-Rapid City reach a median of $29,547 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $7,917, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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 80%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. At 130 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 130 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,291 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $17,122 while those at $110k+ pay $25,771. Grant aid reaches 77% of students at an average of $4,994. Federal borrowing reaches 52% 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 · 20 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 | $17,122 |
| $30–48k | $18,376 |
| $48–75k | $22,626 |
| $75–110k | $24,848 |
| $110k+ | $25,771 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 68 of these 130 students, totalling $464,172 — an average of $6,826 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pennington County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)