Unitek College
of Nursing
For-profit College in South San Francisco, CA. Median 10-year earnings $87,877.
Ten-year median earnings of $87,877 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. 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
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. First-year retention of 94% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The 13:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 387 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $22,130 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Net price varies modestly by income — $21,780 at $0–30k against $27,497 at $75–110k — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid is limited — 44% of students receive any. About 41% 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 · 63 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 | $21,780 |
| $30–48k | $23,161 |
| $48–75k | $26,585 |
| $75–110k | $27,497 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 160 of these 387 students, totalling $1,231,744 — an average of $7,698 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Mateo County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026