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Institute-West Atlantic City
For-profit College in West Atlantic City, NJ. Median 10-year earnings $32,473.
Ten-year median earnings of $32,473 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $17,200, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
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
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. First-year retention of 89% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 35:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. This is a small school — 401 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 401 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $29,528 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($29,562 versus $34,627), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 74% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,337 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 63% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 128 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 | $29,562 |
| $30–48k | $29,155 |
| $48–75k | $27,995 |
| $75–110k | $32,826 |
| $110k+ | $34,627 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 254 of these 401 students, totalling $1,930,670 — an average of $7,601 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Atlantic 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)