National American
University-Rapid City
For-profit College in Rapid City, SD. Median 10-year earnings $37,325.
Students who entered National American University-Rapid City reach a median of $37,325 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 0% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation reaches $29,020, heavy enough to shape the years right after the degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.78 — elevated (above 0.60)
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 0% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Retention is weak: only 33% of full-time first-years return, so roughly two in three leave after one year. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. Unusually, part-time retention (46%) beats full-time, pointing to a student body that is part-time by design. A 6:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 832 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $31,062 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. About 60% get grants averaging $5,645, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 54% 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 · 7 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 | $31,062 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 448 of these 832 students, totalling $3,780,002 — an average of $8,438 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pennington County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)