Tulsa Welding School-Jacksonville
For-profit College in Jacksonville, FL. Median 10-year earnings $41,067.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $41,067, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,500.
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
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. First-year retention is 79% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The 30:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. 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. This is a small school — 1,591 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 1,591 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $34,215 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Income makes less difference than usual: $33,879 at $0–30k, $38,991 at $110k+. 72% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,345 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 65% 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 · 834 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 | $33,879 |
| $30–48k | $33,895 |
| $48–75k | $35,764 |
| $75–110k | $37,904 |
| $110k+ | $38,991 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,036 of these 1,591 students, totalling $6,256,051 — an average of $6,039 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