Berk Trade and Business School
About
Berk Trade and Business School is a private, for-profit trade and vocational schools in New York City. It was founded in 1945 and is one of the oldest trade and vocational schools in the city. The school's founder, Irving Berk, was committed to trade and vocational education. The school develops entry-level skills for the building trades, specifically plumbing, electrical installation and building maintenance.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
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.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges
Action history · 2
- Aug 2025Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges
- Sep 2018Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: ProbationAccrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges
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, 213 students received $813K in Pell grants, alongside $816K 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 175 borrowers who entered repayment, 8 (4.5%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% 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 BTBS
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.
BTBS vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions BTBS 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectBerk Trade and Business School | 95% | — | 152 | $15,834 | — |
Advanced Welding Institute | — | — | 104 | $24,554 | — |
American Advanced Technicians Institute | — | — | 23 | $34,549 | — |
Arkansas Welding Academy | — | 61.5% | 73 | $32,263 | — |
Capstone College | — | — | 148 | $18,047 | — |
Central Pennsylvania Diesel Institute | — | — | — | $20,363 | — |
Charles Stuart School of Diamond Setting | — | — | 38 | $41,229 | — |
Chicago Professional Center | — | — | 95 | — | — |
Commercial Divers International | — | — | 71 | $34,714 | — |
DeHart Technical School | — | — | 99 | $25,450 | — |
Elite Welding Academy | — | — | 24 | $21,504 | — |
Elite Welding Academy LLC | — | — | 59 | $27,702 | — |
Elite Welding Academy South Point | — | — | 29 | $30,807 | — |
Hamrick School | — | — | 89 | $4,428 | — |
Heartland Welding Academy | — | — | 47 | $20,694 | — |
Independent Training & Apprenticeship Program | — | — | 92 | $22,276 | — |
InterCoast Colleges-Riverside | — | — | 65 | $23,880 | — |
Lynnes Welding Training | — | — | 55 | $23,093 | — |
Mauna Loa Helicopters | — | 100.0% | 12 | $112,070 | — |
Mobile Technical Training | — | — | 31 | $13,686 | — |
Modern Welding School | — | — | 58 | $24,257 | — |
Ohio Business College-Dayton-Driving Academy | — | — | 170 | $3,422 | — |
Pennsylvania Gunsmith School | — | — | 64 | $30,056 | — |
Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery | — | — | 21 | $25,894 | — |
Technology Learning Center | — | — | 31 | — | — |
Tulsa Welding School-Dallas Campus | — | — | 1,020 | — | — |
U.S. Truck Driver Training School | — | — | 24 | $13,223 | — |
Welder Training and Testing Institute | — | — | 55 | $24,740 | — |
| Peer group median | 95% | 80.8% | 59 | $24,257 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Frequently asked questions about Berk Trade and Business School
Quick answers to the questions most often asked about BTBS.
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