Lincoln College
of Technology-Denver
For-profit College in Denver, CO. Six-year graduation rate 71%. Median 10-year earnings $46,396.
Ten years after entry, the median Lincoln College of Technology-Denver student earns $46,396 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Completion is a strength: 71% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation is $11,730, 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
A 71% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention of 70% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The 25:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. This is a for-profit two-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. This is a small school — 1,851 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,851 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $33,101 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price varies modestly by income — $31,402 at $0–30k against $36,538 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $3,766. 60% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 979 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 | $31,402 |
| $30–48k | $30,707 |
| $48–75k | $32,631 |
| $75–110k | $35,138 |
| $110k+ | $36,538 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,110 of these 1,851 students, totalling $8,220,849 — an average of $7,406 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Denver 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)