Private nonprofit · Community college

Bryant & Stratton College-Parma

Parma, Ohio · Large suburb

14%
Transfer rate: $12,849
Avg net price: 19%
Grad / completion: $32,568
Median earnings

Bryant & Stratton College-Parma is a private nonprofit associate-granting institution in Parma, Ohio (large suburb setting), enrolling 624 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private nonprofitSmall · 624 undergradsLarge suburbNJCAA Division IICold wintersSnowy

About Parma, Ohio

Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. In 1806, the area that would eventually become Parma and Parma Heights was originally surveyed by Abraham Tappan, a surveyor for the Connecticut Land Company, and was known as Township 6 - Range 13. This designation gave the town its first identity in the Western Reserve. Local musician Bob "Mad Dog" McGuire penned a song entitled "Moon Over Parma" about an eccentric courtship that traverses the various suburbs of Cleveland. The song first received wide exposure on Big Chuck and Lil' John during its "New Talent Time" segment in 1983. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large suburb
Highest degree offered: Bachelor's
Nearest big city: 8 miles to Cleveland, OH
To Great Lakes shore: 6 miles
Nearest airport: 4 miles to Cleveland Hopkins (CLE) · major hub

How Bryant & Stratton College-Parma compares

Graduation rate19%

Higher than 4% · #162 of 168 in Ohio

Earnings, 10 years after entry$32,568

Higher than 41% · #109 of 157 in Ohio

Average net price$12,849

Cheaper than 58% · #58 cheapest of 155 in Ohio

Median debt at graduation$21,549

Lower than 4%

Student–faculty ratio11 : 1

Lower than 78%

Undergraduate enrollment624

Larger than 66%

Percentiles compare Bryant & Stratton College-Parma 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 Ohio.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women51082%
Men11418%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White42%
Black42%
Hispanic3.0%
Asian1.6%
Other or multiracial11%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 624
Student–faculty ratio: 11 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 72%
First-generation students: 54%
Students over 25: 50%
Median family income: $15,184
Avg faculty salary (academic year): $53,586

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

Where students come from

Home state of the 73 first-year students who entered in fall 2023.

From Ohio90%
Other U.S. states9.6%

Most first-years stay in state — Bryant & Stratton College-Parma draws overwhelmingly from Ohio.

Out-of-state students usually pay a higher tuition rate at public schools — check the cost card above for your bracket. Source: IPEDS residence & migration, fall 2023 entering class.

Cost

In-state tuition: $19,580
Room & board: —
Books & supplies: $1,800
Total cost of attendance: $23,917
Average net price: $12,849

Outcomes

Graduated (within 6 years): 19%
Graduated on time (4 years): 100%
First-year retention: —
Transferred to another college: 14%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $27,873
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $32,568
Median debt at graduation: $21,549
Students with federal loans: 79%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 14%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

100%

Low-income (Pell)

26%

First-generation

27%

When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: Free
Athletics: NJCAA Division II
Varsity athletes: 90 (76 men · 14 women)

Varsity sports (2)

Basketball58

Baseball32

Athlete counts per sport, Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25.

Campus safety

Safety grade: A
Reported offenses per 1,000 students: 0.0 / year
Violent offenses (2022–2024): 0
Property offenses (2022–2024): 0

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

$12,920

$30–48k

—

$48–75k

$8,480

$75–110k

—

$110k+

$15,518

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

$33,920

$8,480/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.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Grant aid from the school's own funds — the discount off sticker, on top of any federal or state help.

65%

of first-years get a grant from the school

$6,355

average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 65% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $6,355. Most of what lowers the price here is federal or state money, not the school's own funds.

Blends need-based and merit aid — IPEDS doesn't split the two, so a high number can mean generous merit scholarships, deep need-based aid, or both. Figures cover 60 full-time first-year undergraduates, 2022–23. Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years): $32,568
Typical debt at graduation: $21,549
Debt vs. one year's pay: 66%
Out-earn a HS grad: 34%

Typical debt would take roughly 6.6 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

$32,089

Men

$34,349

Men out-earn women by $2,260 (7%) 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: 84°F
Winter low: 22°F
Annual rain: 41″
Annual snow: 63.8″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Cleveland, OH US station (4.1 mi from campus).

What Bryant & Stratton College-Parma graduates study — and earn

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssoc.

63 grads$69k 1 yr$74k 5 yr$34k debt

63$68,983$74,046$33,892 Allied Health and Medical Assisting ServicesAssoc.

32 grads$32k 1 yr$35k 5 yr$24k debt

32$32,115$34,900$24,200 Business/Commerce, GeneralAssoc.

18 grads$30k 1 yr$35k 5 yr$25k debt

18$30,059$35,439$24,509 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing

13 grads$72k 1 yr— 5 yr$41k debt

13$71,701—$40,664 Public HealthAssoc.

11 grads$34k 1 yr$41k 5 yr$30k debt

11$33,828$41,022$30,312 Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing AssistantsCert.

11 grads$45k 1 yr— 5 yr$26k debt

11$45,098—$25,967 Criminal Justice and CorrectionsAssoc.

6 grads$32k 1 yr$35k 5 yr$23k debt

6$32,211$35,000$22,960 Business Administration, Management and Operations

5 grads$36k 1 yr$49k 5 yr$45k debt

5$36,375$48,785$45,243 Public Health

4 grads$38k 1 yr$43k 5 yr$52k debt

4$37,548$43,215$52,060 Human Services, GeneralAssoc.

3 grads$32k 1 yr— 5 yr$29k debt

3$31,677—$29,279 Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/TechniciansAssoc.

2 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

2———Legal Support ServicesAssoc.

1 grads$31k 1 yr$41k 5 yr$26k debt

1$30,998$40,856$25,524

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.