Auguste Escoffier
School of Culinary Arts-Austin
For-profit College in Austin, TX. Six-year graduation rate 70%. Median 10-year earnings $36,330.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $36,330, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is a strength: 70% of students finish within six years. Graduates carry a median of $16,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 70% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. First-year retention is 76% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The 23:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. Being a for-profit two-year institution is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual. This is a small school — 470 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 470 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $19,799 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($18,316 versus $23,163), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 80% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,739 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 57% 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 · 399 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 | $18,316 |
| $30–48k | $19,825 |
| $48–75k | $18,887 |
| $75–110k | $22,463 |
| $110k+ | $23,163 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 269 of these 470 students, totalling $1,990,374 — an average of $7,399 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Travis 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)