Heartland Welding Academy
For-profit College in Andover, KS.
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. At 18:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. At 87 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 87 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $19,304 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($18,843 versus $22,478), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 49% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 49% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 55 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 | $18,843 |
| $30–48k | $17,941 |
| $48–75k | $21,400 |
| $75–110k | $21,795 |
| $110k+ | $22,478 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 43 of these 87 students, totalling $220,066 — an average of $5,118 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Butler County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026