Nashville Auto-Diesel College
For-profit College in Nashville, TN. Six-year graduation rate 68%. Median 10-year earnings $46,396.
Ten years after entry, the median Nashville Auto-Diesel College student earns $46,396 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Completion is a strength: 68% 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
Six-year completion runs to 68% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 25:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. Being a for-profit two-year institution is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual. This is a small school — 1,781 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 1,781 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $33,555 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($31,557 versus $36,937), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is widespread — 85% of students receive it, averaging $4,371. Borrowing is widespread: 65% 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 · 893 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 | $31,557 |
| $30–48k | $31,688 |
| $48–75k | $33,540 |
| $75–110k | $36,016 |
| $110k+ | $36,937 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,163 of these 1,781 students, totalling $9,036,633 — an average of $7,770 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Davidson 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)