Capstone College
For-profit College in Pasadena, CA. Median 10-year earnings $35,348.
Students who entered Capstone College reach a median of $35,348 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 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 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. First-year retention of 93% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 24:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. 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. This is a small school — 243 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 243 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,552 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price varies modestly by income — $14,472 at $0–30k against $20,809 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 47% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 48% 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 · 66 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 | $14,472 |
| $30–48k | $16,981 |
| $48–75k | $14,014 |
| $75–110k | $19,223 |
| $110k+ | $20,809 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 117 of these 243 students, totalling $956,661 — an average of $8,177 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles 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)