Aveda Institute-Denver
For-profit College in Denver, CO. Median 10-year earnings $38,020.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,020, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,829 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. Retention is strong at 86%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Being a for-profit short-program school 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. At 515 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 515 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,666 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $17,523 at $0–30k, $23,384 at $110k+. Grant aid is limited — 32% of students receive any. 43% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 291 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 | $17,523 |
| $30–48k | $20,002 |
| $48–75k | $18,992 |
| $75–110k | $22,738 |
| $110k+ | $23,384 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 221 of these 515 students, totalling $1,235,195 — an average of $5,589 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Denver 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)