Unitek College
of Nursing
For-profit College in Hayward, CA. Median 10-year earnings $87,877.
A decade after enrolling, the median Unitek College of Nursing student earns $87,877 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Median debt at graduation is $10,700, 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 0.12 — 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 63% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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. At 524 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 524 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $18,551 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $17,767 at $0–30k, $22,524 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 51% of students at an average of $4,966. About 48% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 106 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 | $17,767 |
| $30–48k | $19,807 |
| $48–75k | $19,414 |
| $75–110k | $22,281 |
| $110k+ | $22,524 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 249 of these 524 students, totalling $1,727,275 — an average of $6,937 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Alameda County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)