National Career Education
About
National Career Education is a vocational institution located in California that specializes in hands-on training for careers in various fields including personal fitness, electrical work, HVAC, medical assistance, and lab technology. The school offers programs that prepare students for industry certifications and is approved for veterans' education benefits and financial aid. The founding year is not mentioned.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 21.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
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.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 911 borrowers who entered repayment, 31 (3.4%) 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 National Career Education
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
- On campus2
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.
National Career Education vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions National Career Education 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectNational Career Education | 83% | — | 515 | $24,800 | Special Focus Two-Year: Health Professions |
Advanced Career Institute | — | — | 664 | — | — |
Advanced Training Institute | — | — | 605 | — | — |
Austin Career Institute | — | — | 102 | $19,530 | — |
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 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 | 83% | 90.4% | 245 | $24,215 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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