Florida Career College-Hialeah
For-profit College in Hialeah, FL. Six-year graduation rate 58%.
Academics
58% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 68% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 21:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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 — 894 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $34,326 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price varies modestly by income — $34,365 at $0–30k against $37,849 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Most students get help: 98% receive grants worth $6,145 on average. Most students borrow — 67% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 | $34,365 |
| $30–48k | $32,978 |
| $48–75k | $37,076 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $37,849 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Miami-Dade County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026