North Central Institute
For-profit College in Clarksville, TN. Six-year graduation rate 100%. Median 10-year earnings $55,027.
Students who entered North Central Institute land at a median of $55,027 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is a strength: 100% of students finish within six years.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 100% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
100% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 — 146 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 146 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $30,044 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price varies modestly by income — $17,251 at $0–30k against $20,506 at $48–75k — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid is limited — 16% of students receive any. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 9% of students.
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 · 30 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 | $17,251 |
| $30–48k | $18,409 |
| $48–75k | $20,506 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 13 of these 146 students, totalling $65,001 — an average of $5,000 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Montgomery 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)