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North American
Trade Schools

For-profit College in Baltimore, MD. Median 10-year earnings $39,756.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
North American Trade Schools · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$39,756
Median debt at grad
$7,338
Federal loan default
0%

Median earnings ten years after entry come to $39,756, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,338 — modest by four-year standards.

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 0.18 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
84%
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
12:1

This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Retention is strong at 84%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. As a for-profit short-program school, 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. This is a small school — 975 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
33%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
49%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 975 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

No average net price is published here, so the cost side of this page is incomplete. Treat the participation rates as a signal about aid, not about price. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($8,597 versus $8,597), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 33% of students receive any. About 49% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.

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.

% receiving grants
36%
Average grant
$5,375

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 886 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 $8,597
$30–48k $8,597
$48–75k $8,597
$75–110k $8,597
$110k+ —

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 481 of these 975 students, totalling $3,008,266 — an average of $6,254 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

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

Studio
$1,362/mo
1 bedroom
$1,511/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,857/mo

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

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
86
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate North American Trade Schools

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