Arkansas Welding Academy
For-profit College in Jacksonville, AR.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. 98% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 18:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 124 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $35,500 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Net price varies modestly by income — $35,652 at $0–30k against $37,208 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $5,219. Most students borrow — 58% 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 · 93 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 | $35,652 |
| $30–48k | $36,131 |
| $48–75k | $26,952 |
| $75–110k | $37,208 |
| $110k+ | $37,208 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 72 of these 124 students, totalling $401,270 — an average of $5,573 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pulaski 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)