Chattanooga College
Medical Dental and & Technical Careers
For-profit College in Chattanooga, TN. Six-year graduation rate 12%. Median 10-year earnings $25,954.
Students who entered Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers reach a median of $25,954 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 12% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $7,891, 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 0.30 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 12% — below national average
Academics
Only 12% finish within six years, so roughly nine in ten students leave without the credential. Retention is weak: only 31% of full-time first-years return, so roughly two in three leave after one year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. This is a for-profit four-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 307 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $33,625 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($33,561 versus $37,746), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is widespread — 90% of students receive it, averaging $4,169. Most students borrow — 86% 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 · 105 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 | $33,561 |
| $30–48k | $33,090 |
| $48–75k | $33,859 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $37,746 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 265 of these 307 students, totalling $1,441,135 — an average of $5,438 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hamilton 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)