Delta College-Slidell Campus
For-profit College in Slidell, LA. Median 10-year earnings $32,044.
Ten-year median earnings of $32,044 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Graduates leave owing a median of $6,397 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.20 — 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. 62% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. The 9:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a for-profit short-program school. 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 — 218 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 218 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,630 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $21,720 at $0–30k, $27,672 at $110k+. Most students get help: 89% receive grants worth $7,408 on average. Borrowing is widespread: 68% take federal loans.
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 · 56 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 | $21,720 |
| $30–48k | $19,957 |
| $48–75k | $20,327 |
| $75–110k | $27,672 |
| $110k+ | $27,672 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 148 of these 218 students, totalling $686,051 — an average of $4,635 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (St. Tammany Parish) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026