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Ross Medical
Education Center-Charleston

For-profit College in Charleston, WV. Median 10-year earnings $30,072.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Ross Medical Education Center-Charleston · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$30,072
Median debt at grad
$9,500
Federal loan default
0%

Students who entered Ross Medical Education Center-Charleston reach a median of $30,072 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 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.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
50%
Transfer-out rate
Student:faculty
22:1

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. 50% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The student-faculty ratio is 22:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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

Average net price
$17,821
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
79%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
69%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 70 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Net price lands at $17,821 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $48–75k bands is narrow ($17,821 versus $24,591), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 79% of students at an average of $4,867. 69% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.

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.

% receiving grants
86%
Average grant
$4,962

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 36 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 $17,821
$30–48k
$48–75k $24,591
$75–110k
$110k+

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 48 of these 70 students, totalling $320,936 — an average of $6,686 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Kanawha County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$714/mo
1 bedroom
$829/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,036/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
1
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Ross Medical Education Center-Charleston

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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