Ross Medical
Education Center-Lafayette
For-profit College in Lafayette, IN. Median 10-year earnings $33,079.
Ten-year median earnings of $33,079 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — 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. 52% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The 44:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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. At 159 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 159 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $19,890 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $20,264 at $0–30k, $24,623 at $110k+. About 72% get grants averaging $4,787, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Most students borrow — 56% 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 · 76 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 | $20,264 |
| $30–48k | $18,614 |
| $48–75k | $19,827 |
| $75–110k | $24,623 |
| $110k+ | $24,623 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 89 of these 159 students, totalling $652,174 — an average of $7,328 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Tippecanoe County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026