Private nonprofit · Community college

Ameritas College

Huntington, West Virginia · Small city

25%
Transfer rate: $9,422
Avg net price: 25%
Grad / completion: $21,783
Median earnings

Ameritas College is a private nonprofit associate-granting institution in Huntington, West Virginia (small city setting), enrolling 181 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private nonprofitSmall · 181 undergradsSmall cityCold winters

About Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Discounting the period of French ownership, the land that was part of Guyandotte and later Huntington was originally part of the 28,628-acre (115.85 km2) French and Indian War veteran's Savage Grant. Huntington is within Appalachia. The 2006 Warner Bros. motion picture We Are Marshall, the 2010 ABC series Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, the 2017 television series My Brother, My Brother and Me, and the Netflix documentary "Heroin(e)" were all filmed in the city. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Small city
Highest degree offered: Associate
Nearest big city: 44 miles to Charleston, WV
To Great Lakes shore: 205 miles
Nearest airport: 7 miles to Tri-State Airport / Milton J. Ferguson Field (HTS)

How Ameritas College compares

Graduation rate25%

Higher than 8% · #40 of 42 in West Virginia

First-year retention82%

Higher than 67%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$21,783

Higher than 8% · #37 of 40 in West Virginia

Average net price$9,422

Cheaper than 72% · #25 cheapest of 42 in West Virginia

Median debt at graduation$21,604

Lower than 4%

Student–faculty ratio17 : 1

Lower than 44%

Undergraduate enrollment181

Larger than 42%

Percentiles compare Ameritas College with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in West Virginia.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women11966%
Men6234%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White79%
Black13%
Hispanic2.8%
Other or multiracial5.0%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 181
Student–faculty ratio: 17 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 90%
First-generation students: 62%
Students over 25: 88%
Median family income: $5,134
Avg faculty salary (academic year): $33,804

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition: $10,050
Room & board: —
Books & supplies: $0
Total cost of attendance: $17,951
Average net price: $9,422

Outcomes

Graduated: 25%
First-year retention: 82%
Transferred to another college: 25%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $18,035
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $21,783
Median debt at graduation: $21,604
Students with federal loans: 75%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 16%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: Free

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k

$9,503

$30–48k

$7,016

$48–75k

$12,706

$75–110k

—

$110k+

—

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Ameritas College funds essentially no grants of its own — almost all aid here comes from federal (Pell), state, or outside sources rather than the school's own discount. Its sticker price is what it is.

Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid, 2022–23 full-time first-year undergraduates.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years): $21,783
Typical debt at graduation: $21,604
Debt vs. one year's pay: 99%
Out-earn a HS grad: 18%

Typical debt would take roughly 9.9 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Weigh it value

The payoff is less clear-cut here — weigh the debt against the earnings and your intended field before borrowing heavily.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women

$22,483

Men

$20,288

Women out-earn men by $2,195 (11%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high: 87°F
Winter low: 25°F
Annual rain: 45.3″
Annual snow: 10.2″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Huntington Swg PL, WV US station (4.7 mi from campus).

What Ameritas College graduates study — and earn

Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions

9 grads$27k 1 yr— 5 yr$25k debt

9$26,687—$25,346 Health and Medical Administrative Services

5 grads$26k 1 yr$34k 5 yr— debt

5$25,995$34,023—Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services

5 grads$24k 1 yr$21k 5 yr$25k debt

5$23,748$20,616$25,027 Business Administration, Management and Operations

5 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

5———Dental Support Services and Allied Professions

4 grads— 1 yr$28k 5 yr— debt

4—$28,022—Business Operations Support and Assistant Services

3 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

3———General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations

— grads$26k 1 yr$21k 5 yr$28k debt

—$25,876$20,586$27,833

Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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1 mi

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2 mi

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.