Austin Career Institute
About
Austin Career Institute is a vocational institution located in Austin, Texas, offering various programs in areas such as medical assistance, electrical technology, HVAC technology, and welding. The institute caters to students including veterans and those seeking career advancements. The founding year is not mentioned.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell and non-Pell students graduate at nearly identical rates — a notably small equity gap.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 3 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 3 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data3 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Council on Occupational Education
Action history · 9
- Dec 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Jun 2025Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewCouncil on Occupational Education
- Jun 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Jun 2024Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewCouncil on Occupational Education
- Mar 2024Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Occupational Education
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 305 students received $1.7M in Pell grants, alongside $1.5M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 1 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 0.1% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Austin Career Institute
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Austin Career Institute vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Austin Career Institute selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectAustin Career Institute | 86% | — | 102 | $19,530 | — |
Advanced Career Institute | — | — | 664 | — | — |
Advanced Training Institute | — | — | 605 | — | — |
Automotive Training Center-Warminster | — | — | 302 | $13,761 | — |
Brownson Technical School | — | — | 307 | $32,584 | — |
Commercial Diving Technologies Institute | — | — | — | $36,910 | — |
Diesel Driving Academy-Baton Rouge | — | — | 282 | $15,214 | — |
Diesel Driving Academy-Shreveport | — | — | 191 | $15,123 | — |
Divers Institute of Technology | — | — | 198 | $40,497 | — |
ETI School of Skilled Trades | — | — | 443 | $27,351 | — |
HDS Truck Driving Institute | — | — | 200 | — | — |
Hohokus School of Trade and Technical Sciences | — | — | 146 | $22,064 | — |
HVAC Technical Institute | — | — | 285 | $23,216 | — |
Industrial Management Training Institute | — | — | 114 | $49,117 | — |
InterCoast Colleges-Fairfield | — | — | 183 | $23,134 | — |
InterCoast Colleges-Rancho Cordova | — | — | 71 | $23,629 | — |
Lincoln Technical Institute-South Plainfield | — | — | 335 | $28,743 | — |
M T Training Center | — | — | 293 | $9,784 | — |
MotoRing Technical Training Institute | — | 81.7% | 124 | $19,403 | — |
Motoring Technical Training Institute | — | 99.0% | 312 | $17,747 | — |
National Aviation Academy of New England | — | — | 241 | $32,825 | — |
National Career Education | — | — | 515 | $24,800 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
National Career Institute | — | — | 249 | $21,409 | — |
Northeast Technical Institute | — | — | 74 | $35,025 | — |
Ocean Corporation | — | — | 192 | $30,210 | — |
Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology | — | — | 317 | $32,884 | — |
The Fab School | — | — | 161 | $39,612 | — |
| Peer group median | 86% | 90.4% | 245 | $24,215 |
Reports & documents (2)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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