Southern Technical College
For-profit Community College in Orlando, FL. Six-year graduation rate 63%. Median 10-year earnings $29,893.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $29,893, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Six-year completion sits at 63%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $11,250.
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
Completion is middling: 63% finish inside six years. Retention is weak: only 59% of full-time first-years return, so roughly two in five leave after one year. Retention drops to 23% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. At 22:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Being a for-profit two-year institution 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 2,365 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $20,011 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $20,224 at $0–30k, $24,757 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $8,062. Most students borrow — 67% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 1,206 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 | $20,224 |
| $30–48k | $22,966 |
| $48–75k | $24,033 |
| $75–110k | $24,503 |
| $110k+ | $24,757 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,590 of these 2,365 students, totalling $14,058,355 — an average of $8,842 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Orange County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
School operating under provisional accreditation (previously accredited by ACICS)
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)