Carrington College-Tucson
For-profit College in Tucson, AZ. Six-year graduation rate 66%. Median 10-year earnings $36,718.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $36,718, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. 66% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. 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 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
A 66% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. First-year retention is 79% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 724 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $34,195 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($33,801 versus $31,992), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 66% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,683 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 73% 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 · 298 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 | $33,801 |
| $30–48k | $33,312 |
| $48–75k | $34,531 |
| $75–110k | $37,901 |
| $110k+ | $31,992 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 525 of these 724 students, totalling $3,471,515 — an average of $6,612 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pima 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)