Concorde Career College-Dallas
For-profit College in Dallas, TX. Six-year graduation rate 60%. Median 10-year earnings $42,456.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $42,456 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 60%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. 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 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Concorde Career College-Dallas admits 90% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. The applicant pool is small at 356, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. A 54% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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60% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 78% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. At 23:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. This is a for-profit two-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 666 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $25,308 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($24,781 versus $30,222), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 77% of students at an average of $5,633. 76% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 539 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 | $24,781 |
| $30–48k | $24,514 |
| $48–75k | $26,274 |
| $75–110k | $29,624 |
| $110k+ | $30,222 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 504 of these 666 students, totalling $3,724,326 — an average of $7,390 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Dallas 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)