Tulsa Welding School-Jacksonville
For-profit College in Jacksonville, FL. 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 75% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The 30:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. As a for-profit short-program school, 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 — 798 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 798 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $31,380 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($31,814 versus $36,779), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 72% of students at an average of $6,126. 62% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 395 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 | $31,814 |
| $30–48k | $30,286 |
| $48–75k | $30,997 |
| $75–110k | $36,779 |
| $110k+ | $36,779 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 493 of these 798 students, totalling $3,152,096 — an average of $6,394 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Duval County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026