Private for-profit · Academy

Academy College

Bloomington, Minnesota · Small city

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Admit rate: $29,093
Avg net price: 36%
Graduation rate: $48,300
Median earnings

Academy College is a private for-profit bachelor's-granting institution in Bloomington, Minnesota (small city setting), enrolling 56 undergraduates.

Private for-profitSmall · 56 undergradsSmall cityCold wintersSnowy

About Bloomington, Minnesota

Bloomington is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. In the 1780s, a village called Titanka Tannina existed in what is now Bloomington, at the mouth of Nine Mile Creek. 'Titanka Tannina' is Dakota for 'the Old Village', likely meaning that Titanka Tannina was the first Dakota community on the Minnesota River. Benefiting from its proximity to major transportation routes and the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, Bloomington is a major hospitality center with nearly 8,000 hotel rooms. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Small city
Highest degree offered: Bachelor's
Nearest big city: 9 miles to Minneapolis, MN
To Great Lakes shore: 142 miles
Nearest airport: 4 miles to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP) · major hub

How Academy College compares

Graduation rate36%

Higher than 18% · #37 of 39 in Minnesota

First-year retention0%

Higher than 1%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$48,300

Higher than 33% · #29 of 38 in Minnesota

Average net price$29,093

Cheaper than 18% · #34 cheapest of 39 in Minnesota

Median debt at graduation$29,500

Lower than 5%

Student–faculty ratio8 : 1

Lower than 89%

Undergraduate enrollment56

Larger than 4%

Percentiles compare Academy College with the nation's 2,196 four-year colleges, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count four-year colleges in Minnesota.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women1730%
Men3970%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White46%
Black7.1%
Hispanic8.9%
Asian3.6%
Other or multiracial34%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 56
Student–faculty ratio: 8 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 26%
First-generation students: 33%
Students over 25: 74%
Median family income: $24,907
Avg faculty salary (academic year): $24,372

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition: $18,680
Room & board: —
Books & supplies: $2,102
Total cost of attendance: $33,874
Average net price: $29,093

Outcomes

Graduated (within 6 years): 36%
Graduated on time (4 years): 36%
First-year retention: 0%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $45,418
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $48,300
Median debt at graduation: $29,500
Students with federal loans: 49%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 40%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $40

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k

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$30–48k

$29,015

$48–75k

$24,391

$75–110k

—

$110k+

$33,874

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Four-year (or more) true cost

Net price for your family's income, projected across the time it actually takes students here to graduate.

Family income

Est. total to a degree

$97,859

$24,391/year × about 4.0 years — most students here don't finish in exactly four, and each extra term adds cost. A planning estimate from net-price and graduation-timing data, not a bill.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years): $48,300
Typical debt at graduation: $29,500
Debt vs. one year's pay: 61%
Out-earn a HS grad: 53%

Typical debt would take roughly 6.1 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Weigh it value

The payoff is less clear-cut here — weigh the debt against the earnings and your intended field before borrowing heavily.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women

$33,847

Men

$56,032

Men out-earn women by $22,185 (66%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high: 83°F
Winter low: 9°F
Annual rain: 31.6″
Annual snow: 51.2″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Minneapolis/ST Paul AP, MN US station (4 mi from campus).

What Academy College graduates study — and earn

Air Transportation

6 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

6———Air TransportationAssoc.

5 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

5———Business Administration, Management and Operations

3 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

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Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.