Portage Lakes
Career Center
Public College in Uniontown, OH. Median 10-year earnings $38,316.
Students who entered Portage Lakes Career Center reach a median of $38,316 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $8,444, 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 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 88% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Part-time students actually return at a higher rate, 100%, which is unusual and suggests the school is built for them. At 19:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 255 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $23,307 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Net price varies modestly by income — $21,174 at $0–30k against $27,236 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 49% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 42% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 113 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 | $21,174 |
| $30–48k | $20,206 |
| $48–75k | $22,124 |
| $75–110k | $27,236 |
| $110k+ | $27,236 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 106 of these 255 students, totalling $786,961 — an average of $7,424 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Summit County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026