Southwest Institute
of Healing Arts
For-profit College in Tempe, AZ. Six-year graduation rate 67%. Median 10-year earnings $29,544.
Ten-year median earnings of $29,544 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is a strength: 67% 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
A 67% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention of 77% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 24:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. As a for-profit two-year institution, 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. This is a small school — 919 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 911 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $36,457 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Income makes less difference than usual: $43,248 at $0–30k, $45,279 at $75–110k. 20% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. About 46% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 200 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 | $43,248 |
| $30–48k | $44,398 |
| $48–75k | $45,279 |
| $75–110k | $45,279 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 418 of these 911 students, totalling $3,399,467 — an average of $8,133 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Maricopa 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)