Galen Health Institutes-Houston
For-profit College in Houston, TX. Median 10-year earnings $61,480.
Ten-year median earnings of $61,480 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $24,166, neither a bargain nor a burden.
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. 57% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. Retention drops to 36% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 543 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $29,159 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($29,277 versus $35,856), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 70% of students at an average of $6,431. Most students borrow — 85% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 80 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 | $29,277 |
| $30–48k | $32,920 |
| $48–75k | $31,410 |
| $75–110k | $32,199 |
| $110k+ | $35,856 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 464 of these 543 students, totalling $4,615,160 — an average of $9,946 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Harris County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026