CET-Watsonville
Private College in Watsonville, CA. Median 10-year earnings $32,986.
Students who entered CET-Watsonville reach a median of $32,986 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $7,041.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.21 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. 69% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. The 24:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. As a private nonprofit short-program school, the relevant comparison is other two-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. The undergraduate body is just 241, 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 241 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $10,010 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $4,468 while those at $75–110k pay $17,525. Grant aid reaches 57% of students at an average of $13,707. Only 10% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 85 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 | $4,468 |
| $30–48k | $5,514 |
| $48–75k | $2,895 |
| $75–110k | $17,525 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 25 of these 241 students, totalling $150,170 — an average of $6,007 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Santa Cruz County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026