Porter &
Chester Institute of Hamden
For-profit College in Hamden, CT. Median 10-year earnings $42,914.
Students who entered Porter & Chester Institute of Hamden land at a median of $42,914 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $12,350.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Just 30% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. At 13:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 308 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $19,586 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($19,045 versus $25,490), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Most students get help: 90% receive grants worth $899 on average. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 13% 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 · 89 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 | $19,045 |
| $30–48k | $19,711 |
| $48–75k | $25,192 |
| $75–110k | $25,217 |
| $110k+ | $25,490 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 40 of these 308 students, totalling $223,002 — an average of $5,575 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (South Central Connecticut Planning Region) — 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)