Union County
Vocational Technical School
Public College in Scotch Plains, NJ. Median 10-year earnings $37,590.
- ✓ 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. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The student-faculty ratio is 17:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. As a public short-program institution, the relevant comparison is other two-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. At 144 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 144 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $8,389 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $3,283 at $0–30k versus $11,426 at $75–110k. Grant aid is limited — 26% of students receive any. Only 1% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 89 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 | $3,283 |
| $30–48k | $6,829 |
| $48–75k | $9,252 |
| $75–110k | $11,426 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2 of these 144 students, totalling $5,442 — an average of $2,721 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Union County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026