Glendale Career College
For-profit College in Glendale, CA. Six-year graduation rate 63%. Median 10-year earnings $41,472.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $41,472, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Six-year completion sits at 63%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,500. On economic mobility, 3.2% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
63% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention is strong at 90%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. At 21:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,240 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $48,880 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($47,983 versus $50,858), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 53% of students at an average of $4,879. Borrowing is widespread: 72% 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 · 365 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 | $47,983 |
| $30–48k | $49,643 |
| $48–75k | $49,798 |
| $75–110k | $50,013 |
| $110k+ | $50,858 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 898 of these 1,240 students, totalling $7,439,545 — an average of $8,285 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles County) — 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)