HCI College
For-profit College in West Palm Beach, FL. Six-year graduation rate 100%.
100% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $24,149, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
- ✓ Graduation rate 100% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
100% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 5% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. Unusually, part-time retention (100%) beats full-time, pointing to a student body that is part-time by design. At 3:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a for-profit four-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 753 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $35,425 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($35,184 versus $24,923), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 71% of students receive grant aid, averaging $7,646 — common but not automatic. About 30% 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 · 82 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 | $35,184 |
| $30–48k | $37,650 |
| $48–75k | $32,598 |
| $75–110k | $24,923 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 229 of these 753 students, totalling $1,132,436 — an average of $4,945 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Palm Beach 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)