Private for-profit · Community college

Stellar Career College

Chicago, Illinois · Large city

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Transfer rate: $25,959
Avg net price: —
Grad / completion: $30,337
Median earnings

Stellar Career College is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Chicago, Illinois (large city setting), enrolling 83 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 83 undergradsLarge cityCold wintersSnowy

About Chicago, Illinois

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. The first known permanent settler in Chicago was a trader, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African descent, perhaps born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), and he established the settlement in the 1780s. He is commonly known as the "Founder of Chicago". Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates. The city has also been rated as having the most balanced economy in the United States, due to its high level of diversification. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large city
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: Chicago, IL
To Great Lakes shore: 1 mile
Nearest airport: 9 miles to Chicago Midway (MDW) · major hub

How Stellar Career College compares

First-year retention91%

Higher than 83%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$30,337

Higher than 32% · #75 of 113 in Illinois

Average net price$25,959

Cheaper than 16% · #113 cheapest of 123 in Illinois

Median debt at graduation$4,834

Lower than 98%

Student–faculty ratio15 : 1

Lower than 56%

Undergraduate enrollment83

Larger than 23%

Percentiles compare Stellar Career 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 Illinois.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women7388%
Men1012%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White8.4%
Black49%
Hispanic18%
Asian7.2%
Other or multiracial17%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 83
Student–faculty ratio: 15 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 88%
First-generation students: 63%
Students over 25: 67%
Median family income: $11,020

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

Cost

In-state tuition: —
Room & board: —
Total cost of attendance: —
Average net price: $25,959

Outcomes

Graduated: —
First-year retention: 91%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $36,539
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $30,337
Median debt at graduation: $4,834
Students with federal loans: 85%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 37%

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $100

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

$25,959

$30–48k

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$48–75k

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$75–110k

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$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.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Stellar Career 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): $30,337
Typical debt at graduation: $4,834
Debt vs. one year's pay: 16%
Out-earn a HS grad: 21%

Typical debt would take roughly 1.6 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

$28,519

Men

$39,582

Men out-earn women by $11,063 (39%) 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: 81°F
Winter low: 20°F
Annual rain: 34.4″
Annual snow: 38.8″

Average temperature

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Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Chicago Northerly IS, IL US station (2.3 mi from campus).

What Stellar Career College graduates study — and earn

Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions

42 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

42———Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services

8 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

8———Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions

1 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

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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.