Glendale Career
College-North-West College-Bakersfield
For-profit College in Bakersfield, CA. Six-year graduation rate 50%. Median 10-year earnings $41,472.
Students who entered Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield reach a median of $41,472 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 50%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $9,500, a light load against those earnings.
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
Completion is middling: 50% finish inside six years. Just 52% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. A 33:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. As a for-profit two-year institution, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. The undergraduate body is just 657, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 657 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $51,447 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $51,290 at $0–30k, $51,088 at $110k+. 65% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,386 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 78% 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 · 235 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 | $51,290 |
| $30–48k | $52,374 |
| $48–75k | $52,603 |
| $75–110k | $52,658 |
| $110k+ | $51,088 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 514 of these 657 students, totalling $4,132,029 — an average of $8,039 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kern County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026