Private for-profit · Community college

Ohio Media School-Valley View

Valley View, Ohio · Large suburb

0%
Transfer rate: $24,111
Avg net price: 66%
Grad / completion: $37,423
Median earnings

Ohio Media School-Valley View is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Valley View, Ohio (large suburb setting), enrolling 88 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 88 undergradsLarge suburbCold wintersSnowy

About Valley View, Ohio

Valley View is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. In 2013, a scandal involving the laundering of campaign funding resulted in resignation of Mayor Randall Westfall. In 2014, he was sentenced to eighteen months probation and thirty days in jail after pleading guilty to corruption charges. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large suburb
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 8 miles to Cleveland, OH
To Great Lakes shore: 9 miles
Nearest airport: 12 miles to Cleveland Hopkins (CLE) · major hub

How Ohio Media School-Valley View compares

Graduation rate66%

Higher than 56% · #78 of 168 in Ohio

First-year retention52%

Higher than 13%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$37,423

Higher than 58% · #81 of 157 in Ohio

Average net price$24,111

Cheaper than 20% · #121 cheapest of 155 in Ohio

Median debt at graduation$9,500

Lower than 57%

Student–faculty ratio12 : 1

Lower than 73%

Undergraduate enrollment88

Larger than 25%

Percentiles compare Ohio Media School-Valley View 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

Women3034%
Men5866%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White14%
Black63%
Hispanic15%
Other or multiracial9.1%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 88
Student–faculty ratio: 12 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 72%
First-generation students: 42%
Students over 25: 53%
Median family income: $16,766

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: $24,111

Outcomes

Graduated: 66%
First-year retention: 52%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $28,853
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $37,423
Median debt at graduation: $9,500
Students with federal loans: 74%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 25%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

66%

Low-income (Pell)

64%

First-generation

66%

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

$23,685

$30–48k

$23,796

$48–75k

$27,459

$75–110k

$29,184

$110k+

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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?

Ohio Media School-Valley View 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): $37,423
Typical debt at graduation: $9,500
Debt vs. one year's pay: 25%
Out-earn a HS grad: 44%

Typical debt would take roughly 2.5 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

$32,679

Men

$38,736

Men out-earn women by $6,057 (19%) 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: 81°F
Winter low: 24°F
Annual rain: 33.3″
Annual snow: 63.8″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Cleveland Burke AP, OH US station (9.3 mi from campus).

What Ohio Media School-Valley View graduates study — and earn

Radio, Television, and Digital Communication

212 grads$19k 1 yr$27k 5 yr$10k debt

212$18,896$27,396$9,500 Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication

8 grads$16k 1 yr— 5 yr$16k debt

8$15,718—$15,833 Film/Video and Photographic Arts

— grads$16k 1 yr— 5 yr$16k debt

—$16,262—$15,833

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.