North-West College-Anaheim
For-profit College in Anaheim, CA. Six-year graduation rate 60%. Median 10-year earnings $39,876.
Students who entered North-West College-Anaheim reach a median of $39,876 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 60%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
60% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. First-year retention of 87% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. The 39:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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 753 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $28,625 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($28,432 versus $34,116), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 64% get grants averaging $4,505, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 70% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 298 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 | $28,432 |
| $30–48k | $28,967 |
| $48–75k | $29,668 |
| $75–110k | $31,247 |
| $110k+ | $34,116 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 529 of these 753 students, totalling $3,340,435 — an average of $6,315 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Orange County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026