Career Care Institute
For-profit College in Lancaster, CA. Six-year graduation rate 71%. Median 10-year earnings $39,888.
Students who entered Career Care Institute reach a median of $39,888 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is a strength: 71% of students finish within six years. Graduates carry a median of $16,625 in debt — in line with the national norm.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
71% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention of 69% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Being a for-profit two-year institution 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. The undergraduate body is just 986, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 986 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $50,808 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Net price varies modestly by income — $48,610 at $0–30k against $55,022 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 60% of students at an average of $5,813. 63% 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 · 129 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 | $48,610 |
| $30–48k | $48,862 |
| $48–75k | $50,120 |
| $75–110k | $52,430 |
| $110k+ | $55,022 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 619 of these 986 students, totalling $4,563,269 — an average of $7,372 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)