Pima Medical Institute-Albuquerque
For-profit College in Albuquerque, NM. Six-year graduation rate 68%. Median 10-year earnings $30,917.
Students who entered Pima Medical Institute-Albuquerque reach a median of $30,917 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is a strength: 68% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $5,500 — 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 0.18 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 68% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. First-year retention is 78% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. At 25:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. This is a for-profit two-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 1,107 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 1,107 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $20,680 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $48–75k bands is narrow ($21,291 versus $18,386), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 61% of students at an average of $6,725. 60% 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 · 363 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 | $21,291 |
| $30–48k | $17,340 |
| $48–75k | $18,386 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 662 of these 1,107 students, totalling $6,261,967 — an average of $9,459 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bernalillo 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)