UEI College-Garden Grove
For-profit College in Garden Grove, CA. Median 10-year earnings $31,141.
Ten-year median earnings of $31,141 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 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 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Retention of 76% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The student-faculty ratio is 21:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. Being a for-profit short-program school 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 1,818 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $28,110 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Income makes less difference than usual: $27,793 at $0–30k, $33,738 at $110k+. Most students get help: 91% receive grants worth $4,459 on average. 74% 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 · 586 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 | $27,793 |
| $30–48k | $27,589 |
| $48–75k | $28,797 |
| $75–110k | $31,593 |
| $110k+ | $33,738 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,346 of these 1,818 students, totalling $10,205,007 — an average of $7,582 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Orange County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026