Ross Medical
Education Center-Knoxville
For-profit College in Knoxville, TN. Median 10-year earnings $30,072.
Students who entered Ross Medical Education Center-Knoxville reach a median of $30,072 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — 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 0.32 — 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. Retention is weak: only 56% of full-time first-years return, so roughly two in five leave after one year. The 25:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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 125 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $20,093 annually once grants are applied. Net price varies modestly by income — $20,208 at $0–30k against $22,403 at $75–110k — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 67% of students at an average of $4,509. Borrowing is widespread: 57% 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 · 69 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 | $20,208 |
| $30–48k | $20,101 |
| $48–75k | $24,363 |
| $75–110k | $22,403 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 71 of these 125 students, totalling $471,863 — an average of $6,646 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Knox 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)