Private, for profit. Predominantly bachelor's degrees
What American Public University System costs
Charles Town, West Virginia. The published cost of attendance is $18,768.00 a year. Students receiving federal aid pay a net price of $9,597.00.
- $18,768Published cost of attendance, a year
- $9,597Net price after grants, for students receiving federal aid
- $8,400Tuition and fees, in state
- $21,743Median debt of borrowers who completed
- $44,409Median earnings ten years after entry
- $40,074Undergraduates
- 57%Complete within one and a half times the normal time
What borrowing the net price would look like
Borrowing $9,597.00 a year for 4 years at 6.52%, the 2026-27 undergraduate rate, comes to $38,388.00 borrowed. By the time the first payment is due, six months after finishing, interest has taken it to $46,535.86. On a ten-year standard plan that is $528.88 a month.
This is a scenario, not a prediction
It assumes the whole net price is borrowed, that the cost does not rise, that the programme finishes on time, and that the loan is unsubsidized. Change any of those and the figure moves. The point of showing it is that the debt at graduation is larger than the sum of the borrowing, which is the part people plan against and usually miss.
Where to go next
- American Public University System publishes its own current figures, which will be more recent than this page.
- Student aid and forgiveness in West Virginia
- The federal repayment plans available to you
Sources
- College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data, U.S. Department of Education. Figures describe 2025-26. Collected automatically on , so nobody checked this row by hand.