National Career College
For-profit Community College in Panorama City, CA. Six-year graduation rate 74%. Median 10-year earnings $19,347.
Ten-year median earnings of $19,347 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is a strength: 75% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $8,645 — modest by four-year standards.
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
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 75% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention is strong at 88%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. At 22:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. As a for-profit two-year institution, 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 595 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $26,953 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $26,764 at $0–30k, $34,325 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 64% of students at an average of $7,590. Most students borrow — 59% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 117 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 | $26,764 |
| $30–48k | $26,548 |
| $48–75k | $26,519 |
| $75–110k | $32,167 |
| $110k+ | $34,325 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 349 of these 595 students, totalling $2,546,139 — an average of $7,296 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles 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)