Hohokus School
of Trade and Technical Sciences
For-profit College in Paterson, NJ. Median 10-year earnings $43,917.
Students who entered Hohokus School of Trade and Technical Sciences land at a median of $43,917 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Median debt at graduation is $7,600, 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 0.17 — 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. First-year retention is 79% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. As a for-profit short-program school, 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 221 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $22,749 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $21,664 at $0–30k, $24,854 at $75–110k. Grant aid reaches 77% of students at an average of $6,108. Borrowing is widespread: 63% 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 · 170 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 | $21,664 |
| $30–48k | $22,097 |
| $48–75k | $23,554 |
| $75–110k | $24,854 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 140 of these 221 students, totalling $1,610,000 — an average of $11,500 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Passaic 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)