About
Northwest Educational Center is a vocational training institution located in Houston, Texas, founded in 1985. It focuses on providing high-quality training in health care, beauty, and construction technology programs. The Center is accredited by the Council on Occupational Education and maintains the Texas Workforce Commission's approval.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 4 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 4 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data4 · 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 · 13
- Sep 2025Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Occupational Education
- Mar 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Sep 2024Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Sep 2024Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Dec 2023Removal of Show Cause StatusCouncil 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, 548 students received $3.4M in Pell grants.
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 0 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 13.2% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
Academic programs at Northwest Educational Center
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.
Northwest Educational Center vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Northwest Educational Center 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectNorthwest Educational Center | 70% | — | 305 | $11,535 | — |
Access Careers | — | — | 511 | — | — |
Access Careers-Islandia | — | — | 312 | — | — |
Allen School-Brooklyn | — | — | 192 | $25,874 | — |
American Institute of Medical Sciences & Education | — | — | 472 | $40,225 | — |
American Institute-Cherry Hill | — | — | 390 | $17,603 | — |
American Institute-Somerset | — | — | 364 | $16,629 | — |
American Institute-Toms River | — | — | 484 | $17,386 | — |
American Institute-West Hartford | — | — | 402 | $18,110 | — |
Arlington Career Institute | — | — | 562 | $24,339 | — |
Associated Technical College-Los Angeles | — | — | 315 | $22,236 | — |
Carrington College-Portland | — | 83.6% | 254 | $29,350 | — |
CDE Career Institute | — | — | 311 | $29,396 | — |
Center for Allied Health Education | — | 18.5% | 437 | $35,431 | — |
Center for Ultrasound Research & Education | — | — | 37 | $48,634 | — |
CyberTex Institute of Technology | — | — | 152 | $27,877 | — |
Dawn Career Institute LLC | — | — | 355 | $15,731 | — |
Delta College Inc | — | — | 155 | $22,997 | — |
First Institute of Travel, Inc. | — | — | 278 | $20,410 | — |
Florida International Training Institute | — | 79.1% | 494 | $53,875 | — |
Fortis College | — | — | 315 | $21,159 | — |
Fortis College-Montgomery | — | — | 359 | $19,380 | — |
Fortis Institute-Lawrenceville | — | — | 373 | $18,433 | — |
Global Medical & Technical Training Institute | — | — | 393 | $33,927 | — |
Institute of Technology | — | — | 267 | $33,197 | — |
New York Medical Career Training Center | — | 100.0% | 452 | $29,174 | — |
North-West College-Pomona | — | 100.0% | 381 | $33,256 | — |
PCI Health Training Center | — | 100.0% | 256 | $18,420 | — |
Prism Career Institute-Cherry Hill | — | 47.4% | 269 | $28,909 | — |
Prism Career Institute-Philadelphia | — | 100.0% | 468 | $27,173 | — |
Southern California Health Institute | — | — | 156 | $26,692 | — |
Unitek College | 63% | — | 5,725 | $25,719 | — |
| Peer group median | 67% | 91.8% | 357 | $25,797 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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