Delta College West
For-profit College in Lake Charles, LA.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Just 41% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 117 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $18,198 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($18,064 versus $23,212), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is widespread — 91% of students receive it, averaging $5,479. 78% 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 · 50 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 | $18,064 |
| $30–48k | $15,817 |
| $48–75k | $18,186 |
| $75–110k | $23,212 |
| $110k+ | $23,212 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 91 of these 117 students, totalling $349,995 — an average of $3,846 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Calcasieu Parish) — 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)