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For-profit College

Southern California
Health Institute

For-profit College in North Hollywood, CA. Six-year graduation rate 87%. Median 10-year earnings $34,558.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Southern California Health Institute · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$34,558
Median debt at grad
$9,500
Graduation rate
86.6%
Federal loan default
0%

Ten-year median earnings of $34,558 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is a strength: 87% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — modest by four-year standards.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • Graduation rate 87% — well above the national average
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
78%
Transfer-out rate
0%
Student:faculty
18:1

A 87% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention of 78% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 18:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a for-profit two-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 325 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$29,272
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
84%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
91%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 325 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $29,272 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Grant aid reaches 84% of students at an average of $3,650. Borrowing is widespread: 91% take federal loans.

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.

% receiving grants
89%
Average grant
$3,067

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 276 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 $29,326
$30–48k
$48–75k
$75–110k
$110k+

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 295 of these 325 students, totalling $1,115,045 — an average of $3,780 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,863/mo
1 bedroom
$2,085/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,601/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

VA caution flag

Heightened Cash Monitoring, Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); Heightened Cash Monitoring; School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring

GI Bill students
18
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Southern California Health Institute

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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