Contra Costa
Medical Career College
For-profit College in Antioch, CA. Six-year graduation rate 100%.
100% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates leave owing a median of $6,333 — modest by four-year standards.
- ✓ Graduation rate 100% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 100% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention is strong at 100%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The 25:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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. This is a small school — 1,174 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 1,174 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price is not reported for this institution, which means there is no single what-you-pay number to compare — the aid participation rates below are the closest available proxy. Grant aid is limited — 35% of students receive any. 28% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 16 students
Federal student loans went to 332 of these 1,174 students, totalling $1,823,443 — an average of $5,492 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Contra Costa 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)