The Modern College of Design
Kettering, OH · For-profit · Small city · MCD
For-profit institution in Kettering, OH · 189 undergraduates · 92% acceptance rate · $42,187 median earnings 10 years after entry.
- Top 9%Median graduate debt
- Top 10%Student-faculty ratio
- Top 21%Pell Grant share
Stats
College Scorecard figures, each with where this school sits nationally among institutions that report the same measure. A dash means the school does not report it.
Cost
- Average net price
- $34,7091,843rd cheapest of 1,985 reporting
- In-state tuition & fees
- $30,5481,361st cheapest of 2,042 reporting
- Out-of-state tuition & fees
- $30,5481,274th cheapest of 2,042 reporting
- Cost of attendance
- $45,3361,352nd cheapest of 1,985 reporting
- Median graduate debt
- $12,000168th lowest of 1,880 reporting
Outcomes
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $42,1871,515th highest of 1,969 reporting
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $36,0741,474th highest of 1,964 reporting
- Graduation rate (4-year)
- 62.0%692nd highest of 2,031 reporting
- Full-time retention
- —
Admissions
- Acceptance rate
- 91.8%1,302nd most selective of 1,608 reporting
- Average SAT
- —
- Median ACT
- —
Campus
- Undergraduates
- 1891,885th largest of 2,162 reporting
- Student-faculty ratio
- 8.0:1216th smallest of 2,159 reporting
- Pell Grant share
- 47.2%453rd highest of 2,140 reporting
Nearest large-hub airport: 180 mi (DTW)
List appearances
This school doesn’t place in the top slice of any of our 111 lists. Most lists are Top 25–50, so absence here is common and says little on its own.
Best-paying fields of study
Median earnings one and two years after graduating, by field. Showing 1 of 1 reported programs.
| Field | Level | 1 yr | 2 yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design and Applied ArtsVisual & Performing Arts | bachelors | — | — |
Campus facts
Key links
- Official websitethemodern.edu
- College ScorecardFederal source for every figure above (UNITID 205391)
- Compare colleges in OHRe-score with your weights
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- Showdown: The Modern College of Design vs Cleveland Institute of MusicHigher-or-lower on real Scorecard metrics — round 1 is these two
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