Northern Career Institute
Public College in Eastlake, OH. Median 10-year earnings $49,073.
Students who entered Northern Career Institute land at a median of $49,073 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,500.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.19 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. 82% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 6:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a public short-program institution, the relevant comparison is other two-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. This is a small school — 140 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 140 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $12,435 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price varies modestly by income — $11,115 at $0–30k against $16,681 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid is widespread — 92% of students receive it, averaging $7,660. 71% 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 · 56 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 | $11,115 |
| $30–48k | $13,143 |
| $48–75k | $15,841 |
| $75–110k | $16,064 |
| $110k+ | $16,681 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 99 of these 140 students, totalling $769,754 — an average of $7,775 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lake 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)