Auguste Escoffier
School of Culinary Arts-Boulder
For-profit College in Boulder, CO. Six-year graduation rate 48%. Median 10-year earnings $32,001.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $32,001, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Six-year completion sits at 48%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $9,653, 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 0.30 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion sits at 48%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. 49% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. At 48:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. As a for-profit two-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. The undergraduate body runs to 14,363, large enough that student experience varies widely by program.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 14,363 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,130 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($12,863 versus $16,707), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 66% of students at an average of $4,868. Borrowing is widespread: 65% take federal loans.
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 · 3,629 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 | $12,863 |
| $30–48k | $13,641 |
| $48–75k | $14,324 |
| $75–110k | $15,975 |
| $110k+ | $16,707 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 9,323 of these 14,363 students, totalling $62,314,140 — an average of $6,684 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Boulder 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)