Schools Ranked by Default Rate

Default rates measure the percentage of students who fail to repay their federal student loans. A lower default rate indicates that students are finding an adequate means of income after leaving the school because they can afford to pay back their student loans. In addition, lower default rates also indicate a lower amount of student debt. For each school, we looked at the cohort default rates published by the College Navigator database for the 2009 fiscal year.

College Navigator did not have the default rate for all of the colleges on our list. We did not, however, want to penalize those colleges without data. To that end, we simply excluded those schools from the rankings in this category.

Rank School FT to PT
Faculty Ratio		 Institution
Fin. Aid Rate		 Acceptance Rate Retention Rate Graduation Rate Accred.
Years		 Default
Rate		 Job Place. Rate  
801 University of Phoenix-Online Campus 0.01 to 1 5% N/A 36% 17% 13 26% N/A  
802 Black River Technical College 1.26 to 1 7% N/A 59% 30% 15 27% N/A  
803 Chabot College 0.69 to 1 0% N/A 72% 24% 49 27% 100%  
804 International Academy of Design and Technology-Online 0.04 to 1 6% N/A 41% N/A N/A 27% N/A  
805 Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College 1.13 to 1 7% N/A 53% 32% 11 27% N/A  
806 Spencerian College 0.86 to 1 14% N/A 41% 50% 58 27% N/A  
807 American InterContinental University-Online 0.04 to 1 38% 98% 14% 28% 3 27% N/A  
808 Lamar State College-Orange 0.77 to 1 10% N/A 51% 19% 23 28% N/A  
809 City College--Fort Lauderdale 0.10 to 1 0% 100% N/A 58% 26 28% 100%  
810 Gateway Community and Technical College 0.39 to 1 3% N/A N/A 35% 39 28% N/A  
811 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla 0.40 to 1 31% 66% 70% 20% 36 28% N/A  
811 West Hills College Coalinga 1.02 to 1 16% N/A 62% 30% 60 28% N/A  
813 Arizona Western College 0.35 to 1 14% N/A 63% 16% 44 28% N/A  
814 California College-San Diego 0.15 to 1 21% N/A 56% 53% 32 28% N/A  
815 Anamarc College-El Paso 0.32 to 1 0% N/A 84% 84% 9 29% 90%  
816 Daymar College Online 0.00 to 1 12% N/A N/A N/A N/A 30% N/A  
817 Daytona State College 0.39 to 1 12% N/A N/A 29% 49 30% N/A  
817 Everest College-Phoenix 0.79 to 1 0% N/A 43% 41% 15 30% N/A  
819 Bacone College 0.27 to 1 79% 52% 31% 14% 47 30% N/A  
820 Pueblo Community College 7.00 to 1 4% N/A 50% 21% 33 31% N/A  
821 Trinity Valley Community College 1.64 to 1 29% N/A 54% 23% 60 31% N/A  
821 University of Antelope Valley 1.07 to 1 0% N/A 70% 73% 11 31% N/A  
823 Everest University-South Orlando 0.92 to 1 3% N/A 69% 23% 13 31% N/A  
824 Everest Institute-Rochester 0.25 to 1 6% N/A N/A 26% 46 33% N/A  
824 Langston University 2.21 to 1 45% N/A 56% 13% 64 33% N/A  
826 Pacific States University 0.29 to 1 N/A N/A 100% 67% 16 33% N/A  
827 ITT Technical Institute-Indianapolis 0.08 to 1 1% 89% 28% 16% 13 34% N/A  
828 Antonelli College- Cincinnati 0.28 to 1 0% N/A 26% 48% 37 35% 100%  
829 College America-Denver 0.35 to 1 13% N/A 42% 29% 28 39% N/A  
830 University of Baltimore 0.85 to 1 56% 32% 77% N/A 41 72% N/A  

Methodology

For each college, we gathered data for nine different metrics: the number of full-time faculty per part-time faculty member; institutional financial aid, acceptance, retention, graduation, job placement, and default rates; years accredited; and undergraduate tuition. Learn more