Spartan College
of Aeronautics & Technology
For-profit College in Inglewood, CA. Six-year graduation rate 64%. Median 10-year earnings $61,575.
A decade after enrolling, the median Spartan College of Aeronautics & Technology student earns $61,575 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate is 64%, meaning about one in three students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $20,000 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 7.5% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
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)
- ✓ Mobility score 7.5 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 64% finish inside six years. Retention of 77% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 548 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $32,630 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $33,278 at $0–30k, $38,110 at $110k+. 52% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,622 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 43% of students.
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 · 293 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 | $33,278 |
| $30–48k | $32,742 |
| $48–75k | $35,256 |
| $75–110k | $39,104 |
| $110k+ | $38,110 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 233 of these 548 students, totalling $1,933,591 — an average of $8,299 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.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)