Shawsheen Valley
School of Practical Nursing
Public College in Billerica, MA.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Retention is strong at 100%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 8:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. This is a public short-program institution, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. This is a small school — 35 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 35 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $30,429 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $33,187 at $0–30k, $38,717 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 54% of students at an average of $6,218. Borrowing is widespread: 71% 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 · 10 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 | $33,187 |
| $30–48k | $35,869 |
| $48–75k | $18,760 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $38,717 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 25 of these 35 students, totalling $161,975 — an average of $6,479 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Middlesex County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026