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Professional Academy-Evansville
For-profit College in Evansville, IN. Median 10-year earnings $26,881.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $26,881, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,833 — modest by four-year standards.
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
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. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The student-faculty ratio is 20:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 279 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $12,513 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $12,462 at $0–30k, $17,458 at $110k+. Only 20% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Only 21% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 71 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 | $12,462 |
| $30–48k | $11,254 |
| $48–75k | $10,580 |
| $75–110k | $13,735 |
| $110k+ | $17,458 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 58 of these 279 students, totalling $402,559 — an average of $6,941 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Vanderburgh County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Probation or Equivalent or More Severe Status: Monitoring (Significantly out of compliance - fiscal and administrative capacity); School has an accreditation issue
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)