Strayer University-Texas
For-profit College in Farmers Branch, TX. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $40,092.
Ten-year median earnings of $40,092 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Only 25% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Debt is the pressure point: a median of $40,621 at graduation.
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
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 1.01 — elevated (above 0.60)
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 25% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Retention is strong at 100%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. Transfer-out runs to 25% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 38% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,397 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $22,958 annually once grants are applied. Most students get help: 96% receive grants worth $6,273 on average. Borrowing is widespread: 86% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 3 students
Federal student loans went to 2,053 of these 2,397 students, totalling $19,595,306 — an average of $9,545 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Dallas 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)