Private for-profit · Community college

Galen Health Institutes-Asheville

Asheville, North Carolina · Small city

#2 for grad earnings in North Carolina

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Transfer rate: $28,602
Avg net price: —
Grad / completion: $61,480
Median earnings

Galen Health Institutes-Asheville is a private for-profit associate-granting institution in Asheville, North Carolina (small city setting), enrolling 253 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 253 undergradsSmall cityCold winters

About Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. Before the arrival of the European Colonists, the land where Asheville now exists lay within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation, which had homelands in modern western North and South Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, and northeastern Georgia. Live music is a significant element in the tourism-based economy of Asheville and the surrounding area. Seasonal festivals and numerous nightclubs and performance venues offer opportunities for visitors and locals to attend a wide variety of live entertainment events. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Small city
Highest degree offered: Associate
Nearest big city: 8 miles to Asheville, NC
To the ocean: 226 miles
Nearest airport: 4 miles to Asheville (AVL)

How Galen Health Institutes-Asheville compares

First-year retention0%

Higher than 1%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$61,480

Higher than 96% · #2 of 84 in North Carolina

Average net price$28,602

Cheaper than 10% · #86 cheapest of 90 in North Carolina

Median debt at graduation$24,166

Lower than 3%

Student–faculty ratio12 : 1

Lower than 73%

Undergraduate enrollment253

Larger than 50%

Percentiles compare Galen Health Institutes-Asheville 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 North Carolina.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women22087%
Men3313%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White53%
Black16%
Hispanic3.2%
Asian0.8%
Other or multiracial26%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 253
Student–faculty ratio: 12 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 52%
First-generation students: 49%
Students over 25: 84%
Median family income: $32,674
Avg faculty salary (academic year): $61,425

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

Cost

In-state tuition: $17,048
Room & board: —
Books & supplies: $1,350
Total cost of attendance: $35,990
Average net price: $28,602

Outcomes

Graduated: —
First-year retention: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $58,951
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $61,480
Median debt at graduation: $24,166
Students with federal loans: 82%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 35%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

Low-income (Pell)

57%

First-generation

58%

When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.

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

$29,974

$30–48k

$25,728

$48–75k

$35,990

$75–110k

$11,470

$110k+

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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.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years): $61,480
Typical debt at graduation: $24,166
Debt vs. one year's pay: 39%
Out-earn a HS grad: 74%

Typical debt would take roughly 3.9 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

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

$60,125

Men

$69,868

Men out-earn women by $9,743 (16%) 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: 84°F
Winter low: 24°F
Annual rain: 52″
Annual snow: 10.3″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Bent Creek, NC US station (2.6 mi from campus).

What Galen Health Institutes-Asheville graduates study — and earn

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssoc.

0 grads$68k 1 yr$78k 5 yr$35k debt

0$68,114$78,480$34,859 Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing

0 grads$76k 1 yr$89k 5 yr$46k debt

0$76,234$89,101$45,775

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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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.