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Professional Academy-Ft Myers
For-profit College in Fort Myers, FL. Median 10-year earnings $26,408.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $26,408, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. 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.
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 83% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Unusually, part-time retention (93%) beats full-time, pointing to a student body that is part-time by design. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 168 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $21,091 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $20,566 at $0–30k, $18,695 at $110k+. 21% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. Only 24% 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 · 19 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 | $20,566 |
| $30–48k | $23,214 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $18,695 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 41 of these 168 students, totalling $327,729 — an average of $7,993 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lee 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)