South Texas
Training Center
For-profit College in Pharr, TX. Median 10-year earnings $29,384.
Students who entered South Texas Training Center reach a median of $29,384 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $3,677, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.13 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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. At 276 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 276 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $7,471 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($7,451 versus $14,970), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is widespread — 100% of students receive it, averaging $6,000. 72% 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 · 85 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 | $7,451 |
| $30–48k | $7,657 |
| $48–75k | $11,880 |
| $75–110k | $14,970 |
| $110k+ | $14,970 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 200 of these 276 students, totalling $1,400,000 — an average of $7,000 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hidalgo 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)