South Texas
Vocational Technical Institute-Brownsville
For-profit College in Brownsville, TX. Median 10-year earnings $31,102.
Ten-year median earnings of $31,102 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $15,917.
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
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. 85% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 75% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 527 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $16,277 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $15,834 while those at $75–110k pay $25,069. 79% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,270 — common but not automatic. 76% 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 · 238 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 | $15,834 |
| $30–48k | $14,854 |
| $48–75k | $23,015 |
| $75–110k | $25,069 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 398 of these 527 students, totalling $2,242,164 — an average of $5,634 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cameron County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026