Private for-profit · Community college

Cortiva Institute

Cromwell, Connecticut · Large suburb

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Transfer rate: $34,436
Avg net price: 85%
Grad / completion: $34,866
Median earnings

Cortiva Institute is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Cromwell, Connecticut (large suburb setting), enrolling 209 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 209 undergradsLarge suburbCold wintersSnowyNear the coast

About Cromwell, Connecticut

Cromwell is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States, located within the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. By 1653, the colonists had renamed the settlement Middletown. A season 6 episode of the Discovery Channel series A Haunting, called The Well from Hell, takes place in Cromwell in 2011. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large suburb
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 11 miles to Hartford, CT
To the ocean: 22 miles
Nearest airport: 23 miles to Bradley (BDL) · major hub

How Cortiva Institute compares

Graduation rate85%

Higher than 84% · #6 of 23 in Connecticut

First-year retention77%

Higher than 59%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$34,866

Higher than 49% · #11 of 13 in Connecticut

Average net price$34,436

Cheaper than 4% · #21 cheapest of 23 in Connecticut

Median debt at graduation$11,259

Lower than 34%

Student–faculty ratio20 : 1

Lower than 29%

Undergraduate enrollment209

Larger than 46%

Percentiles compare Cortiva Institute 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 Connecticut.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women16177%
Men4823%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White33%
Black20%
Hispanic32%
Asian1.9%
Other or multiracial13%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 209
Student–faculty ratio: 20 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 57%
First-generation students: 45%
Students over 25: 63%
Median family income: $23,109

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: $34,436

Outcomes

Graduated: 85%
First-year retention: 77%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $25,386
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $34,866
Median debt at graduation: $11,259
Students with federal loans: 63%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 57%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

85%

Low-income (Pell)

62%

First-generation

69%

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

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

$34,436

$30–48k

—

$48–75k

—

$75–110k

—

$110k+

—

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?

Cortiva Institute 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.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years): $34,866
Typical debt at graduation: $11,259
Debt vs. one year's pay: 32%
Out-earn a HS grad: 42%

Typical debt would take roughly 3.2 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

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

$31,096

Men

$41,444

Men out-earn women by $10,348 (33%) 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: 85°F
Winter low: 20°F
Annual rain: 42.8″
Annual snow: 38.6″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Hartford Brainard Fld, CT US station (9.2 mi from campus).

What Cortiva Institute graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

149 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

149———Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services

56 grads$23k 1 yr$28k 5 yr$8k debt

56$22,731$28,024$7,600

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.