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For-profit College

Universal Technical
Institute-Dallas Fort Worth

For-profit College in Irving, TX. Six-year graduation rate 75%. Median 10-year earnings $51,222.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Universal Technical Institute-Dallas Fort Worth · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$51,222
Median debt at grad
$14,267
Graduation rate
75.1%
Federal loan default
0%

Ten years after entry, the median Universal Technical Institute-Dallas Fort Worth student earns $51,222 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Completion is a strength: 75% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation is $14,267, 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.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.28 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • Graduation rate 75% — well above the national average
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
85%
Transfer-out rate
0%
Student:faculty
50:1

Six-year completion runs to 75% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 85% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 50:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. 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. The undergraduate population is 2,293 — big enough for a real range of programs, small enough to navigate.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$25,295
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
70%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
61%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,293 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price after grant aid is $25,295 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($24,887 versus $30,857), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 70% of students at an average of $4,977. Borrowing is widespread: 61% 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.

% receiving grants
78%
Average grant
$6,156

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 807 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 $24,887
$30–48k $24,611
$48–75k $25,878
$75–110k $30,104
$110k+ $30,857

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 1,410 of these 2,293 students, totalling $9,742,986 — an average of $6,910 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Dallas County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,582/mo
1 bedroom
$1,648/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,931/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
373
Yellow Ribbon
Yes
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Universal Technical Institute-Dallas Fort Worth

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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