High Desert Medical College
About
High Desert Medical College (HDMC) is a nationally accredited institution located in California that focuses on providing career training in allied health and veterinary disciplines. It was founded over 10 years ago and offers programs such as Associate Degree Nursing, Clinical Medical Assisting, and Surgical Technology, among others.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 9.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 11 Title IV programs, 1 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 10 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing1 · 9.1%
- No Data10 · 90.9%
- 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.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
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 Council for Continuing Education and Training
Action history · 4
- Apr 2024Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
- Dec 2020Grant Substantive Change: ProgramAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
- Apr 2019Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
- Apr 2019Grant Substantive Change: Final Branch ApprovalAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
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, 2,183 students received $11.8M in Pell grants, alongside $17.1M 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 345 borrowers who entered repayment, 4 (1.1%) defaulted within three years — below 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 High Desert Medical College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families 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.
High Desert Medical College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions High Desert Medical College 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectHigh Desert Medical College | 68% | — | 2,280 | $27,890 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
American Career College-Anaheim | — | — | 1,644 | $27,397 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
American Career College-Los Angeles | — | — | 2,168 | $27,508 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
American Career College-Ontario | — | — | 2,242 | $29,807 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Arizona College of Nursing-Tempe | 89% | 100.0% | 1,202 | $31,502 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Carrington College-Phoenix North | — | 89.5% | 1,080 | — | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Concorde Career College-Memphis | — | 95.1% | 517 | $21,470 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Concorde Career College-San Bernardino | — | 98.3% | 222 | $23,161 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Fortis College-Columbus | — | — | 766 | $27,674 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Fortis College-Landover | — | — | 566 | $26,956 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Hondros College of Nursing | — | 85.3% | 3,857 | $29,682 | — |
Jersey College | — | 67.6% | 4,478 | $28,490 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Martinsburg College | — | 100.0% | 2,812 | $11,096 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
MedQuest College | — | — | 524 | $18,813 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Mildred Elley-New York Campus | — | — | 961 | $23,697 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Pima Medical Institute-Denver | — | — | 664 | $21,821 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Pima Medical Institute-Houston | — | — | 1,068 | $21,060 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Pima Medical Institute-Las Vegas | — | — | 678 | $22,661 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Pima Medical Institute-Mesa | — | — | 705 | $20,904 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Rasmussen University-Illinois | — | — | 1,145 | $18,470 | Baccalaureate |
Rio Grande Valley College | — | — | 832 | $20,678 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Ross College-Sylvania | — | — | 1,714 | $26,304 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Southern Technical College | — | — | 550 | $24,026 | — |
St Paul's School of Nursing-Queens | — | — | 1,056 | $31,766 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
St Paul's School of Nursing-Staten Island | — | — | 656 | $39,377 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
The College of Health Care Professions-Austin | — | — | 974 | $25,479 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
The College of Health Care Professions-Fort Worth | — | — | 1,076 | $26,133 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
The College of Health Care Professions-San Antonio | — | — | 766 | $26,248 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
| Peer group median | 79% | 95.1% | 1,015 | $26,133 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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