Premiere Career College
For-profit College in Irwindale, CA. Six-year graduation rate 52%. Median 10-year earnings $41,270.
Ten-year median earnings of $41,270 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 52% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $15,188.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 52% finish inside six years. First-year retention of 88% 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 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 180 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $25,501 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($25,234 versus $32,314), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 83% of students at an average of $6,671. Borrowing is widespread: 61% take federal loans.
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 · 81 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 | $25,234 |
| $30–48k | $24,719 |
| $48–75k | $25,528 |
| $75–110k | $25,469 |
| $110k+ | $32,314 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 110 of these 180 students, totalling $833,515 — an average of $7,577 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: Show Cause (Other - Provide unlisted or multiple justifications), Heightened Cash Monitoring (Adverse Action Taken by Accreditor/State Agency); School has an accreditation issue; School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)