Tulsa Welding School-Houston
For-profit College in Houston, TX. Median 10-year earnings $41,067.
Ten-year median earnings of $41,067 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation is $9,500, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Retention of 78% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 30:1, 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. With 3,194 undergraduates, the school sits in the middle of the size distribution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,194 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $34,858 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Income makes less difference than usual: $34,638 at $0–30k, $39,411 at $110k+. 78% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,195 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 74% 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 · 1,757 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 | $34,638 |
| $30–48k | $34,161 |
| $48–75k | $36,277 |
| $75–110k | $37,735 |
| $110k+ | $39,411 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,367 of these 3,194 students, totalling $14,679,469 — an average of $6,202 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Harris County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026