Carolinas College
of Health Sciences
Public College in Charlotte, NC. Six-year graduation rate 100%. Median 10-year earnings $64,624.
Ten-year median earnings of $64,624 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. 100% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $15,337, 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 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 100% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 60%, the acceptance rate makes Carolinas College of Health Sciences a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. The applicant pool is small at 207, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. A 58% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through. The score bands below rest on the 19% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 460–690 | 14 (19%) |
| SAT Math | 490–690 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Academics
A 100% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. A 7:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. The undergraduate body is just 404, 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 404 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $52,023 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Grant aid reaches 58% of students at an average of $4,215. Borrowing is widespread: 77% take federal loans.
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 · 5 students
Federal student loans went to 312 of these 404 students, totalling $1,893,174 — an average of $6,068 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Mecklenburg 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)