Rivertown School
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For-profit College in Columbus, GA. Median 10-year earnings $22,139.
Ten-year median earnings of $22,139 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $9,500, 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.
- ✓ 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 of 62% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 244 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $17,835 annually once grants are applied. Net price varies modestly by income — $16,270 at $0–30k against $23,465 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $5,747, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 94% take federal loans.
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 · 112 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 | $16,270 |
| $30–48k | $16,446 |
| $48–75k | $16,457 |
| $75–110k | $20,482 |
| $110k+ | $23,465 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 229 of these 244 students, totalling $1,421,987 — an average of $6,210 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Muscogee 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)