Brookline College-Albuquerque
For-profit College in Albuquerque, NM. Six-year graduation rate 9%. Median 10-year earnings $29,576.
Students who entered Brookline College-Albuquerque reach a median of $29,576 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Only 9% finish within six years, so roughly nine in ten students leave without the credential they enrolled for. 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 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 9% — below national average
Academics
Only 9% finish within six years, so roughly nine in ten students leave without the credential. 0% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The student-faculty ratio is 22:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. As a for-profit four-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. This is a small school — 723 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 713 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $31,827 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($36,151 versus $38,768), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 49% of students receive any. 51% 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 · 38 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 | $36,151 |
| $30–48k | $38,279 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $38,768 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 367 of these 713 students, totalling $3,948,873 — an average of $10,760 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bernalillo 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)