Private for-profit · COLLEGE PAYOFF

Aspen University

Phoenix, AZ · 8 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

MODELED SCENARIO · Uncertain payoff

Payoff needs your actual price

ROI withheld because the institution-wide price is missing, below the reliability floor or produces an extreme price-sensitive scenario.

Available federal data is not complete enough for a confident payoff classification.

Modeled economic break-even
Not availableModeled 10-year ROI
$68,807Observed earnings · year 5
Economic ROI includes direct price and earnings forgone during study · $45,000 comparison earnings · values held flat · see the formula
PAYOFF CURVE

Not enough reliable price data to model ROI.

FEDERAL COST DATA

Four ways to read college price.

Annual college-wide figures from the current College Scorecard release. Average net price covers full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving federal aid; public-college figures use in-state students. Program tuition and individual aid offers may differ.

Published in-state tuition$6,870
Sticker price
Published out-of-state tuition$6,870
Sticker price
Average net priceNot available
Title IV student average
Cost of attendanceNot available
Tuition + living budget
PRICE SOURCECollege reported · annual amount · federal dataset
COLLEGE AT A GLANCE

Institution details

Current federal characteristics describing the college—not the outcomes of a specific program.

Accreditor
Distance Education Accrediting Commission
Main award level
Bachelor’s degrees
Campus setting
City
Admissions
Open admission
Delivery
Online-only institution
Federal designation
No special designation reported
Sources: College Scorecard June 2026 release and IPEDS 2024 institutional characteristics.
OBSERVED FEDERAL MEASURES

Cost, debt, completion and earnings context

Not availableAverage net price / year
Not availableCost of attendance
$15,756Median federal student debt · completer borrowers
$167/moPublished 10-year payment estimate
$68,807Median earnings · year 5 after completion
27.3%Completion rate
Not availableAdmission rate
1,466Student size

Institution debt covers federal student-loan borrowers who completed. Parent PLUS and private loans are excluded; missing and privacy-suppressed values remain unavailable.

PRICE BY FAMILY INCOME

Average net price is not one price

Federal averages for aided students in each family-income band. Your aid offer can differ.

$0–30kNot available
$30–48kNot available
$48–75kNot available
$75–110kNot available
$110k+Not available
LONGER-TERM CONTEXT

What happens beyond the first earnings measure

Year 5$68,807
Year 6$29,448
Year 10Not available
Full-time retention
Not available
Part-time retention
35.3%
Completion within 200% of normal time
Not available

Earnings timepoints may use different historical cohorts and should not be read as one group’s guaranteed salary growth.

NATIONAL CONTEXT

How this college compares

Percentiles compare this institution with currently operating colleges that report the same federal measure.

89thEarnings percentile
9thCompletion percentile
WHAT STANDS OUT

A faster read on this college

These summaries use only reportable field-and-credential records at this institution. They do not fill privacy-suppressed outcomes.

$75,828Median year-4 earnings across reportable program categories
$34,447Median federal debt across categories that report debt
29%Of earnings-reporting categories above their same-field national benchmark
EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$78,528Year 1
$80,603Year 4
$68,807Year 5

Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.

PROGRAM PAYOFF SPREAD

The college average is not the whole story.

Observed earnings vary substantially by field and credential at the same institution.

1Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Bachelor's Degree$109,2652Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing · Master's Degree$106,0243Business Administration, Management and Operations · Master's Degree$79,1624Business Administration, Management and Operations · Bachelor's Degree$75,8285Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology · Master's Degree$59,4876Criminal Justice and Corrections · Master's Degree$54,1117Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Bachelor's Degree$43,285

Observed year-4 earnings · compare like fields and credentials before deciding

BUILD A REAL SHORTLIST

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ALL REPORTABLE PROGRAM CATEGORIES

Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes

Federal fieldCredentialEarnings, year 4Federal debt2023–24 awards
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingBachelor's Degree$109,265$36,787Not reported
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingMaster's Degree$106,024Not availableNot reported
Business Administration, Management and OperationsMaster's Degree$79,162Not availableNot reported
Business Administration, Management and OperationsBachelor's Degree$75,828$24,7960
Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyMaster's Degree$59,487Not availableNot reported
Criminal Justice and CorrectionsMaster's Degree$54,111Not availableNot reported
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and MethodsBachelor's Degree$43,285$34,447Not reported
Clinical, Counseling and Applied PsychologyBachelor's DegreeNot available$51,756Not reported

Awards use first-major IPEDS completions aggregated to the same four-digit field and credential.

Earnings, price, completion and enrollment are observed federal measures. ROI, payoff and break-even are modeled scenarios built from those measures and fixed assumptions. College payoff is not the payoff of every degree at this school; use the program table for a more precise comparison.