Pima Medical Institute-Denver
For-profit College in Denver, CO. Six-year graduation rate 73%. Median 10-year earnings $38,673.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,673, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. 73% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. 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 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 73% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention of 78% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The 25:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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 — 1,280 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 1,280 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,352 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($22,000 versus $25,147), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 44% of students receive any. Federal borrowing reaches 50% 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 · 473 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 | $22,000 |
| $30–48k | $22,208 |
| $48–75k | $22,809 |
| $75–110k | $24,791 |
| $110k+ | $25,147 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 642 of these 1,280 students, totalling $5,743,973 — an average of $8,947 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Adams 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)