Standard Healthcare
Services-College of Nursing
For-profit College in Falls Church, VA. Six-year graduation rate 66%.
The six-year graduation rate of 66% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Median debt at graduation is $14,750, a light load against those earnings.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 28% of applicants are offered a place. Only 247 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. Yield is high — 91% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 66% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. First-year retention of 83% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. At 31:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. 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 1,075 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $34,936 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Income makes less difference than usual: $34,442 at $0–30k, $41,243 at $110k+. Only 48% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Most students borrow — 58% 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 · 213 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 | $34,442 |
| $30–48k | $36,499 |
| $48–75k | $36,243 |
| $75–110k | $37,822 |
| $110k+ | $41,243 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 628 of these 1,075 students, totalling $5,728,816 — an average of $9,122 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Fairfax County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026