Brownson Technical School
For-profit College in Anaheim, CA. Median 10-year earnings $68,767.
A decade after enrolling, the median Brownson Technical School student earns $68,767 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — 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 0.14 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 91% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 22:1, 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. At 471 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 471 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $30,079 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Income makes less difference than usual: $29,344 at $0–30k, $36,189 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 73% of students at an average of $6,654. 72% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 302 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 | $29,344 |
| $30–48k | $29,758 |
| $48–75k | $30,631 |
| $75–110k | $33,879 |
| $110k+ | $36,189 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 338 of these 471 students, totalling $2,769,047 — an average of $8,192 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Orange 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)