Professional Skills Institute

What the IPEDS & College Scorecard Data Shows for Professional Skills Institute

Professional Skills Institute operates as a private for-profit institution located in Maumee, Ohio (suburb: large), with a total reported enrollment of 395 students of which 779 are undergraduates. Institution-level records in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) classify each school by Carnegie category, ownership sector, and urban/rural locale, which is how this profile’s peer group and cost cohort are determined. Professional Skills Institute is categorized as “10” under the Carnegie classification system, a meaningful signal when comparing like-to-like institutions.

Selectivity and financial signals give context to what applicants can expect. The reported admission rate is 83.1%, drawn from the most recent IPEDS Fall enrollment survey. The average net price after grants and scholarships is $20,721, with published in-state tuition of $15,884 and a Pell grant recipient share of 72.6%. Median federal student debt at graduation is $17,813, drawn from the U.S. Treasury-matched College Scorecard file.

Outcomes reveal whether the investment pays back. The 4-year completion rate is 59.4%, and the first-year retention rate is 75.0%. Graduates earn a median of $47,765 ten years after enrolling, compared with $44,172 six years post-enrollment. Within three years of entering repayment, 51300.0% of borrowers are making progress on their federal loans, and 68.1% of graduates earn above the high-school threshold. Treating these numbers as a single snapshot alongside the cost cohort is the standard approach for evaluating ROI under the College Scorecard methodology.