Galen Health Institutes-Asheville
For-profit College in Asheville, NC. Median 10-year earnings $61,480.
Students who entered Galen Health Institutes-Asheville reach a median of $61,480 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Median debt at graduation is $24,166, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 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 0% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Being a for-profit four-year institution 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 183 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $26,226 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $29,974 while those at $110k+ pay $79,482. Grant aid reaches 75% of students at an average of $6,589. Borrowing is widespread: 82% 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 · 15 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 | $29,974 |
| $30–48k | $25,728 |
| $48–75k | $35,990 |
| $75–110k | $11,470 |
| $110k+ | $79,482 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 150 of these 183 students, totalling $1,307,817 — an average of $8,719 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Buncombe County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026