Greater Altoona
Career & Technology Center
Public College in Altoona, PA. Median 10-year earnings $38,008.
Students who entered Greater Altoona Career & Technology Center reach a median of $38,008 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 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 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 200 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $12,008 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $9,019 at the $0–30k band to $22,232 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 59% of students at an average of $8,514. About 46% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 77 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 | $9,019 |
| $30–48k | $12,277 |
| $48–75k | $6,110 |
| $75–110k | $16,786 |
| $110k+ | $22,232 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 92 of these 200 students, totalling $703,520 — an average of $7,647 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Blair 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)