PCI Academy-Plymouth
For-profit College in Plymouth, MN. Median 10-year earnings $31,330.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $31,330, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $5,828 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.19 — 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 81%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Unusually, part-time retention (94%) beats full-time, pointing to a student body that is part-time by design. A 15:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 201 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $19,945 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($19,679 versus $19,835), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 68% of students at an average of $4,224. Most students borrow — 68% 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 · 50 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 | $19,679 |
| $30–48k | $18,772 |
| $48–75k | $20,795 |
| $75–110k | $22,335 |
| $110k+ | $19,835 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 137 of these 201 students, totalling $608,662 — an average of $4,443 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hennepin 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)