Carrington College-Pleasant
Hill Campus
For-profit College in Pleasant Hill, CA. Six-year graduation rate 59%. Median 10-year earnings $39,633.
Students who entered Carrington College-Pleasant Hill Campus reach a median of $39,633 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 60% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Median debt at graduation is $11,537, 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 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
60% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 77% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. As a for-profit two-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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 666 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $39,182 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($39,126 versus $44,064), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 54% of students at an average of $4,556. Most students borrow — 65% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 195 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 | $39,126 |
| $30–48k | $37,835 |
| $48–75k | $40,570 |
| $75–110k | $41,862 |
| $110k+ | $44,064 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 434 of these 666 students, totalling $2,881,680 — an average of $6,640 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Contra Costa County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026