Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
About
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology is a private college in East Elmhurst, New York, specialized in aviation and engineering education. It is adjacent to LaGuardia Airport but was founded in Newark, New Jersey, in 1932 before moving to New York City in 1940. The college's most recent name change, to honor a founder, was on September 1, 2004.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
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 26 Title IV programs, 5 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 21 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing5 · 19.2%
- No Data21 · 80.8%
- 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.
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Action history · 2
- Jun 2020Grant Substantive Change: DegreeMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Jun 2018Renewal of AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher 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, 945 students received $5.2M in Pell grants, alongside $9.7M 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 530 borrowers who entered repayment, 4 (0.7%) 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 Vaughn
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
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 4
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 campus1
Includes 1 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
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.
Vaughn vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Vaughn 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectVaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology | 39% | 73.9% | 1,405 | $39,723 | Baccalaureate |
Bard College at Simon's Rock | — | 95.9% | 314 | $36,684 | Baccalaureate |
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | 0% | — | 744 | $16,172 | Baccalaureate |
Bryant & Stratton College-Buffalo | — | — | 2,086 | $14,117 | Baccalaureate |
Bryant & Stratton College-Online | 17% | — | 10,343 | $14,642 | Baccalaureate |
Bryant & Stratton College-Wauwatosa | 17% | — | 1,037 | $15,135 | Baccalaureate |
Donnelly College | — | — | 395 | $15,025 | Baccalaureate |
Dunwoody College of Technology | 86% | 98.9% | 1,537 | $27,023 | Baccalaureate |
Emmaus Bible College | 56% | 59.8% | 234 | $12,904 | Baccalaureate |
Florida College | 40% | 69.7% | 728 | $22,527 | Baccalaureate |
Goodwin University | — | — | 2,970 | $28,544 | Baccalaureate |
Herzing University-Akron | 0% | 94.6% | 393 | $20,320 | Baccalaureate |
Herzing University-Atlanta | 18% | 93.8% | 435 | $21,757 | Baccalaureate |
Hesston College | 54% | — | 373 | $21,458 | Baccalaureate |
Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte | 34% | 79.9% | 1,184 | $28,901 | Baccalaureate |
Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale | 58% | 97.0% | 20,888 | $34,439 | Doctoral/Professional |
Lackawanna College | 67% | — | 2,211 | $24,449 | Baccalaureate |
New England Institute of Technology | — | 66.7% | 1,922 | $36,906 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Oak Hills Christian College | 6% | 62.7% | 95 | $24,674 | Baccalaureate |
Southeastern Baptist College | 17% | 100.0% | 93 | $5,603 | Baccalaureate |
St. Augustine College | 20% | — | 810 | $17,082 | Baccalaureate |
University of Northwestern Ohio | 32% | — | 2,525 | $20,609 | Baccalaureate |
University of Rio Grande | 36% | — | 2,258 | $29,541 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 33% | 86.8% | 1,037 | $21,757 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (5)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
- opportunityEnhanced Tuition Awards (ETA)New York State Higher Education Services Corporationinstitution_site$6,000
- opportunityTuition Assistance Program (TAP)New York Stateinstitution_site$5,665
- opportunityFederal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)U.S. Department of Educationinstitution_site$4,000
- opportunityNew York State Aid For Part-Time Study (APTS)New York Stateinstitution_site$1,000
- opportunityPart-Time Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)New York Stateinstitution_site
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