Southeast Texas
Career Institute
For-profit College in Silsbee, TX. Median 10-year earnings $24,835.
Students who entered Southeast Texas Career Institute reach a median of $24,835 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $5,500, 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 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention is 65% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The student-faculty ratio is 20:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 143 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $15,096 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,448 at $0–30k, $21,399 at $30–48k. About 62% get grants averaging $3,370, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 38% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 89 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 | $16,448 |
| $30–48k | $21,399 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 54 of these 143 students, totalling $156,984 — an average of $2,907 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hardin County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026