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For-profit College

Institute of
Culinary Education

For-profit College in New York, NY. Median 10-year earnings $47,865.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Institute of Culinary Education · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$47,865
Median debt at grad
$6,439
Federal loan default
0%

The median ten-year earnings figure of $47,865 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Median debt at graduation is $6,439, 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.

Green Flags
  • ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.13 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
—
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
7:1

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 7:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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. This is a small school — 1,046 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.

Financial Aid

Average net price
—
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
24%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
38%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,046 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

One gap to flag: this institution does not report an average net price, so the figures here describe who receives aid rather than what a year actually costs. Use the school's own net price calculator before comparing it against anywhere else. 24% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 38% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.

Federal student loans went to 401 of these 1,046 students, totalling $1,566,580 — an average of $3,907 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (New York County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$2,529/mo
1 bedroom
$2,655/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,910/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
65
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Institute of Culinary Education

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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