Private for-profit · Community college
Arclabs
Piedmont, South Carolina · Large suburb
- 0%
- Transfer rate
- $26,608
- Avg net price
- 76%
- Grad / completion
- —
- Median earnings
Arclabs is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Piedmont, South Carolina (large suburb setting), enrolling 744 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.
About Piedmont, South Carolina
Piedmont is a census-designated place along the Saluda River in Anderson and Greenville counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. David Garrison established a grist mill around 1850 upon the shoals changing the name of the area to Garrison Shoals. Henry Pinckney Hammett bought this property for his cotton mill that used water power of the shoals. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Large suburb
- Highest degree offered
- Certificate
- Nearest big city
- 7 miles to Greenville, SC
- To the ocean
- 180 miles
- Nearest airport
- 16 miles to Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP)
How Arclabs compares
Higher than 71% · #9 of 45 in South Carolina
Higher than 73%
Cheaper than 15% · #44 cheapest of 47 in South Carolina
Lower than 57%
Lower than 29%
Larger than 69%
Percentiles compare Arclabs with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in South Carolina.
Student body
Undergraduates by gender
- Women416%
- Men70394%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White38%
- Black24%
- Hispanic31%
- Other or multiracial7.3%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 744
- Student–faculty ratio
- 20 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 65%
- First-generation students
- 46%
- Students over 25
- 32%
- Median family income
- $20,213
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Cost
- In-state tuition
- —
- Room & board
- —
- Total cost of attendance
- —
- Average net price
- $26,608
Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.
Outcomes
- Graduated
- 76%
- First-year retention
- 85%
- Transferred to another college
- 0%
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- —
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- —
- Median debt at graduation
- $9,500
- Students with federal loans
- 59%
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $50
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.
Campus safety
- Safety grade
- B
- Reported offenses per 1,000 students
- 0.9 / year
- Violent offenses (2022–2024)
- 2
- Property offenses (2022–2024)
- 0
On-campus criminal offenses reported under the Clery Act, 2022–2024, across 5 campuses (744 students). Counts reflect reports, not convictions — schools with strong reporting cultures often show more, so a higher count doesn't simply mean a more dangerous campus.
Reported offenses in an average year
The same 2022–2024 Clery Act reports, divided down to one year.
By offense type, per year
Averages, not a forecast — a single year can run well above or below this. Bars are scaled against this campus's most-reported offense, so they compare types here rather than against other schools.
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.
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.
Does the school pay you to attend?
Arclabs funds essentially no grants of its own — almost all aid here comes from federal (Pell), state, or outside sources rather than the school's own discount. Its sticker price is what it is.
Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid, 2022–23 full-time first-year undergraduates.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 87°F
- Winter low
- 30°F
- Annual rain
- 50.7″
- Annual snow
- 1.4″
Average temperature
HighLowAverage precipitation (inches)
NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Greenville, SC US station (6.7 mi from campus).
What Arclabs graduates study — and earn
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.