Private For-Profit · Troy, Michigan

Motion Picture Institute

Motion Picture Institute is a private for-profit institution in Troy, Michigan. as a private for-profit, published Scorecard outcomes are Title-IV-recipient medians — program mix and repayment risk deserve a closer look than a single headline number.

89.7%
Acceptance rate

The verdict

Motion Picture Institute is open admission.

According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.

89.7%
acceptance rate
City: Small
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Institution data retrieved July 2026; field-of-study data retrieved March 2026.

How to read this Motion Picture Institute profile

Figures above come from IPEDS institution records published through the College Scorecard (retrieved July 2026 for institution fields; March 2026 for field-of-study). Peer groups and cost cohorts follow IPEDS ownership sector, Carnegie class, and locale, not an editorial shortlist.

Average net price subtracts grant and scholarship aid from cost of attendance for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV recipients. It is a defined cohort average, not a personalized price; income-band fields add context but do not replace the school's current net-price calculator.

Earnings use Treasury-linked records for federally aided former students who were working and not enrolled in the measurement year (completers and noncompleters). IPEDS completion and retention use separate first-time, full-time cohorts, so those denominators are not the earnings cohort. Read cost, completion, and earnings as distinct historical measures, not a causal verdict or individual forecast.

10-yr median earnings

Not reported

Federal aid recipients only

Avg net price

Not reported

After grants and scholarships

150%-time completion

Not reported

Full-time, first-time cohort

College ROI Quadrant - Motion Picture Institute vs peers

Motion Picture Institute positioned by earnings vs cost Two-by-two quadrant chart: x-axis median earnings 10 years after enrollment, y-axis average net price after financial aid. Each dot is a college, colored by completion within 150% of normal time (garnet ≥65%, amber 45-64%, red <45%). Net price increases upward, earnings increase rightward, so: bottom-right = best value (low cost, high earnings); top-right = premium (high cost, high earnings); bottom-left = community college tier (low cost, modest earnings); top-left = cost challenge (high cost, low earnings). Currently plotting 8 colleges. Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard joined to Carnegie Classification. Motion Picture Institute positioned by earnings vs cost COST CHALLENGE PREMIUM COMMUNITY BEST VALUE $14K $97K Median Earnings 10 Years After Enrollment ($) $5K $29K Avg Net Price ($) Ross Medical Education Center-Davison: $30K earn · $19K net · 68% grad Ross Medical Educa… Ross Medical Education Center-Ann Arbor: $30K earn · $20K net · 61% grad Ross Medical Educa… French Academy of Cosmetology: $23K earn · $16K net · 90% grad French Academy of … M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant: $21K earn · $5K net · 93% grad M J Murphy Beauty Ross Medical Education Center-Battle Creek: $30K earn · $20K net · 66% grad Ross Medical Educa… Ross Medical Education Center-Midland: $30K earn · $20K net · 77% grad Ross Medical Educa… Chamberlain University-Michigan: $92K earn · $28K net Elevate Salon Institute: $17K earn · $19K net · 83% grad Grad rate (4yr) ≥65% 45-64% <45%
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard + Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education

Each dot is a college plotted by 10-year median earnings (x-axis) vs average net price (y-axis), colored by completion within 150% of normal time. Bottom-right = high earnings/lower price; top-left = lower earnings/higher price.

Quick Facts

53
Undergraduate enrollment
89.7%
Acceptance rate
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SAT average
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150%-time completion
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10-yr median earnings
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First-year retention

How Motion Picture Institute ranks in Michigan

State rank among 145 reporting Michigan colleges with College Scorecard data, a separate lens from the national distribution above.

Metric Motion Picture Institute State rank Percentile
Undergraduate enrollment 53 #127 of 149 15th

Highest former-student earnings in Michigan

#School10-yr earningsNet price
1Kettering University$94,823$34,660
2Chamberlain University-Michigan$92,405$28,045
3University of Michigan-Ann Arbor$83,648$13,138
4Michigan Technological University$78,198$14,182
5Walsh College$72,081-
6University of Detroit Mercy$71,030$15,232
7Lawrence Technological University$69,151$32,918
8Michigan State University$67,253$19,680
9Kalamazoo College$65,590$19,072
10Thomas M Cooley Law School$63,450-
11Northwood University$63,075$27,232
12Universal Technical Institute-Canton$62,575$22,985

Admissions

Admission Rate 89.7%
0%100%89.7%
Share of applicants admitted

Student Demographics

Race & ethnicity

Student body at a glance

Programs & Earnings

No program-level earnings data available for this school.

Scorecard-derived matches among reporting colleges — not school marketing or paid placement lists.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the acceptance rate at Motion Picture Institute?
Motion Picture Institute is a private for-profit institution in Troy, Michigan. The acceptance rate is 89.7%. Undergraduate enrollment is 53 students.

Sources & methodology

Private for-profit profiles foreground Scorecard debt, repayment, and program-level earnings where reported. Marketing claims from the school are not inputs to this page.

Every figure is the Mar–Jul 2026 federal retrieval. For-profit program mixes can shift year to year — treat institution medians as a starting map, then check Field-of-Study rows below. Read the full methodology for how the data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Where to go next from Motion Picture Institute

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Every figure on PlainCollege is rendered directly from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard data, no number is typed in by an editor. Private for-profit profiles compile Scorecard debt/earnings and IPEDS operating fields from federal files — no editor-typed figures. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error on this page. Review the public data changelog. Data current as of Mar–Jul 2026 retrievals.