South Texas
Vocational Technical Institute-Weslaco
For-profit College in Weslaco, 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. Graduates leave owing a median of $15,917 — modest by four-year standards.
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. Retention is strong at 83%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 19:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 701 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $17,956 annually once grants are applied. Net price varies modestly by income — $17,758 at $0–30k against $24,655 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 84% of students at an average of $5,664. 86% 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 · 266 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 | $17,758 |
| $30–48k | $17,997 |
| $48–75k | $18,469 |
| $75–110k | $23,830 |
| $110k+ | $24,655 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 600 of these 701 students, totalling $3,617,419 — an average of $6,029 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)