Arizona College
of Nursing-Tempe
For-profit College in Tempe, AZ. Six-year graduation rate 89%. Median 10-year earnings $34,657.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $34,657, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. 89% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $9,500, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 89% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Arizona College of Nursing-Tempe admits 100% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. With 45 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. 53% of admitted students actually enroll, which is a high yield by national standards.
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
Academics
89% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention of 71% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 20:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. This is a for-profit four-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 1,195 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,195 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $29,819 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $27,061 while those at $110k+ pay $38,153. 49% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. Most students borrow — 74% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 28 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $27,061 |
| $30–48k | $32,566 |
| $48–75k | $36,830 |
| $75–110k | $35,163 |
| $110k+ | $38,153 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 883 of these 1,195 students, totalling $10,106,751 — an average of $11,446 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Maricopa 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)