Wade College
For-profit College in Dallas, TX. Six-year graduation rate 50%. Median 10-year earnings $36,657.
Ten-year median earnings of $36,657 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. The six-year graduation rate is 50%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $22,938, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.63 — elevated (above 0.60)
Academics
Completion is middling: 50% finish inside six years. Retention is strong at 100%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. A 14% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 203 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $17,441 annually once grants are applied. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $17,341 at the $0–30k band to $25,506 at $110k+. 66% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,021 — common but not automatic. 79% 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 · 16 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 | $17,341 |
| $30–48k | $19,771 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $25,506 |
| $110k+ | $25,506 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 161 of these 203 students, totalling $1,383,558 — an average of $8,594 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.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)