Paul Mitchell
the School-Roanoke
For-profit College in Roanoke, VA. Median 10-year earnings $19,217.
Ten-year median earnings of $19,217 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,833 — 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
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. 72% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. At 13:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 199 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $19,620 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($18,544 versus $25,572), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 68% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,358 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 71% 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 · 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 | $18,544 |
| $30–48k | $18,517 |
| $48–75k | $22,924 |
| $75–110k | $25,054 |
| $110k+ | $25,572 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 142 of these 199 students, totalling $1,109,032 — an average of $7,810 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Roanoke City) — 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)