Center for
Advanced Legal Studies
For-profit College in Houston, TX. Six-year graduation rate 62%. Median 10-year earnings $56,561.
Ten years after entry, the median Center for Advanced Legal Studies student earns $56,561 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. 62% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. 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 0.17 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion sits at 62%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Transfer-out runs to 21% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 25:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. As a for-profit four-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. This is a small school — 428 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 428 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $12,257 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $48–75k bands is narrow ($13,901 versus $15,069), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 46% of students receive any. Borrowing is widespread: 63% 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 · 24 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 | $13,901 |
| $30–48k | $11,307 |
| $48–75k | $15,069 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 271 of these 428 students, totalling $1,826,460 — an average of $6,740 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Harris 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)