American University
of Health Sciences
For-profit College in Signal Hill, CA. Six-year graduation rate 50%. Median 10-year earnings $93,610.
A decade after enrolling, the median American University of Health Sciences student earns $93,610 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate is 50%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $40,326 — a substantial load to service on these earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 50% of applicants are offered a place. Only 2 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. Yield is high — 100% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 50%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. As a for-profit four-year institution, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 364 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $26,480 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. 51% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,381 — common but not automatic. 83% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 1 students
Federal student loans went to 302 of these 364 students, totalling $3,309,550 — an average of $10,959 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)