Cortiva Institute-Arlington
For-profit College in Arlington, TX. Median 10-year earnings $29,204.
Ten-year median earnings of $29,204 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $7,521, 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 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. First-year retention is 74% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. As a for-profit short-program school, 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. The undergraduate body is just 220, 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 220 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $31,118 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $33,455 at $0–30k, $37,333 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 67% of students at an average of $4,481. 63% 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 · 70 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 | $33,455 |
| $30–48k | $32,652 |
| $48–75k | $35,399 |
| $75–110k | $36,064 |
| $110k+ | $37,333 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 138 of these 220 students, totalling $725,771 — an average of $5,259 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Tarrant County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026