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Verve College

For-profit College in Oak Brook, IL.

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Verve College · Campus
Median debt at grad
$11,600
Federal loan default
0%
Green Flags
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
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Transfer-out rate
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Student:faculty
25:1

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. The 25:1 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. This is a small school — 385 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.

Financial Aid

Average net price
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Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
93%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
96%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 385 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Net price is not reported for this institution, which means there is no single what-you-pay number to compare — the aid participation rates below are the closest available proxy. Most students get help: 93% receive grants worth $2,751 on average. 96% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.

Federal student loans went to 370 of these 385 students, totalling $1,400,000 — an average of $3,784 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (DuPage County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,480/mo
1 bedroom
$1,581/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,781/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

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How we evaluate Verve College

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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