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American InterContinental University-Houston

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Private for-profitMaster's, Small ProgramsSmall
52
Fin. Resilience
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vs. 22 peers in its group

American InterContinental University-Houston is a private for-profit institution in Houston, TX, classified by Carnegie as “Master's, Small Programs.”

It enrolls about 94 undergraduates and is benchmarked here against 22 peer institutions (All private for-profit 4-year institutions).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 52 out of 100 within that peer group, a transparent composite of endowment per undergraduate, net tuition revenue per student, and instructional spend per student.

Its strongest standing relative to peers is avg monthly faculty salary ($7,818, 65th percentile).

Its weakest is 3-yr cohort default rate (18.8%).

Ibex's cross-metric scan flags: Undergrad enrollment down 72% since 2016; First-year retention 25% (below 60%).

Peer group

All private for-profit 4-year institutions

22 institutions

Undergrad enrollment down 72% since 2016
First-year retention 25% (below 60%)
Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed American InterContinental University-Houston is to the structural shifts reshaping higher ed: a composite structural-risk index plus the 2025 federal budget law’s endowment excise tax and Grad PLUS elimination and the demographic enrollment cliff. Only signals that apply to this institution are shown.

Enrollment cliff (home state)Projected change in the institution's home-state high-school graduates from 2025 to 2041 (WICHE). The U.S. total falls about 13%; a directional feeder-market signal, not an enrollment forecast.
1.6%
Stable or growing

Indicative signals, not forecasts — see each metric’s definition and the methodology. Endowment-tax and Grad PLUS figures appear only where the institution is actually exposed; “nationally” compares against all schools that report each signal.

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Revenue composition
Where the money comes from $4M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Tuition & fees is the largest single source at 100% of revenue.

Tuition & fees99.8%
Auxiliary enterprises0.1%
Other revenue0.1%

Where each dollar of revenue comes from, as a share of total positive revenue. Sources are standardized across public (GASB) and private (FASB) reporting; a net investment loss in a down market is shown as 0% and excluded from the mix.

Financial Health
Net tuition revenue / FTETuition revenue per full-time-equivalent student after institutional aid/discounts — what tuition actually nets.
Average
$16,048
48th percentile in peer grouppeer median $16,973
Instructional spend / FTESpending on instruction per FTE student — how much of the budget reaches the classroom.
Average
$5,539
57th percentile in peer grouppeer median $5,344
In-state tuition & feesPublished in-state tuition and fees before aid (sticker price).
$14,829
56th percentile in peer grouppeer median $14,374
Out-of-state tuition & feesPublished out-of-state tuition and fees before aid (sticker price).
$14,829
56th percentile in peer grouppeer median $14,374
Avg annual cost of attendanceAverage total annual cost — tuition, fees and living costs — before aid.
$26,087
42nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $30,792
Avg monthly faculty salaryAverage monthly salary of full-time faculty (IPEDS) — a proxy for faculty investment.
Average
$7,818
65th percentile in peer grouppeer median $7,308
Average monthly salary of full-time faculty, as reported to IPEDS.
Average net priceAverage yearly price families actually pay after grants and scholarships.
Average
$20,249
50th percentile in peer grouppeer median $21,620
Operating marginNet surplus as a share of total revenue — whether the institution runs in the black.
Deficit
-40.4%
6th percentile in peer grouppeer median 2.4%
Net surplus as a share of total revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23): (total revenues − total expenses) ÷ total revenues. A surplus above 4% is strong; a thin surplus near 0% leaves little margin for shocks.
Tuition dependencyTuition's share of total revenue — how exposed the budget is to enrollment swings.
99.8%
89th percentile in peer grouppeer median 95%
Tuition & fees as a share of total revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23). Higher = more exposed to enrollment swings.
Graduation & completion
Graduation rate · first-time, full-time
4.5%

4.5% graduate within 6 years (150% of normal time)
5.3% on-time, within 4 years (100%)
Counts only students who entered full-time as first-time freshmen and earned a bachelor's here — the conventional headline rate. Excludes part-time entrants and transfer-ins.

Completion rate · all students
32.7%

32.7% earned a degree or certificate within 8 years (IPEDS Outcome Measures)
The broader cohort — also counts part-time entrants and transfer-ins, and any credential. More inclusive, so it can run higher than the graduation rate.

Why two numbers? They measure different students over different windows, so they are not directly comparable. The graduation rate is the standard federal headline but tracks only first-time, full-time students through a bachelor's; the all-students completion rate adds the part-time and transfer students it leaves out, over a longer window. Read each for what it covers. Source: U.S. Department of Education — IPEDS Graduation Rates & Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard.

Enrollment & Pipeline
Undergraduate enrollmentNumber of degree-seeking undergraduates (IPEDS fall headcount). A size measure, not a quality signal.
94
12th percentile in peer grouppeer median 547
First-year retentionShare of first-time, full-time freshmen who return for a second year — an early signal of student fit and support.
Below peers
25%
29th percentile in peer grouppeer median 60.7%
Graduation rate (6-yr · first-time, full-time)Of first-time, full-time freshmen, the share who earn a bachelor's at this institution within six years (150% of normal time) — the conventional headline graduation rate. It counts only first-time, full-time students and excludes part-time entrants and transfer-ins, who are captured instead by the all-students completion rate.
Below peers
4.5%
25th percentile in peer grouppeer median 34.5%
Graduation rate (4-yr on-time · first-time, full-time)Of first-time, full-time freshmen, the share who earn a bachelor's within four years (100% of normal time) — the 'on-time' rate. It runs well below the six-year rate because many students take a fifth or sixth year; same first-time, full-time cohort as the six-year rate.
Average
5.3%
38th percentile in peer grouppeer median 18.5%
Pell recipient shareShare of undergraduates on a federal Pell Grant — a proxy for the share from lower-income families.
68.5%
65th percentile in peer grouppeer median 61.8%
12-month FTE enrollmentFull-time-equivalent enrollment over the full year — the denominator for per-student finance measures.
286
14th percentile in peer grouppeer median 821
Full-time-equivalent enrollment over the full 12-month year (IPEDS 12-month enrollment, 2022-23). Counts part-time students at their fractional load, so it runs above fall full-time headcount and is the denominator used for per-student finance measures.
Student-faculty ratioStudents per instructional faculty member — lower usually means smaller classes and more contact.
15:1
41st percentile in peer grouppeer median 16:1
Students per instructional faculty member (IPEDS, fall 2023). Lower generally means smaller classes and more faculty contact, though the measure mixes undergraduate and graduate teaching and is institution-reported.
Enrollment cliff (home state)Projected change in the institution's home-state high-school graduates from 2025 to 2041 (WICHE). The U.S. total falls about 13%; a directional feeder-market signal, not an enrollment forecast.
Stable or growing
1.6%
— percentile in peer group
Projected change in the number of high-school graduates in the institution's HOME STATE from the class of 2025 (the national peak) to 2041, per WICHE's Knocking at the College Door, 11th Edition (Dec 2024). The 'enrollment cliff' is the post-2008 birth decline reaching college age; the U.S. total is projected to fall about 13% over this window. A college recruits from many states, so its home-state projection is an indicative directional signal of feeder-market pressure, not a forecast of that institution's own enrollment.
Completion rate (all students · 8-yr)Of ALL entering degree-seeking undergraduates — full- and part-time, first-time and transfer-in — the share who earned a degree or certificate at this institution within eight years (IPEDS Outcome Measures). Broader than the graduation rate, which counts only first-time, full-time students, so the two are measured on different students and are not directly comparable.
Average
32.7%
40th percentile in peer grouppeer median 39.3%
Share of ALL entering degree-seeking undergraduates — full- and part-time, first-time and transfer-in — who earned a degree or certificate at this institution within eight years (IPEDS Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard). Broader and more inclusive than the graduation-rate figures, which count only first-time, full-time students entering a bachelor's program — so the two are measured on different groups of students and are not directly comparable.
Student body
Undergraduate race & ethnicity IPEDS 2024-25
Unknown45.7%
Black38.3%
White10.6%
Two or more races4.3%
Asian1.1%

Undergraduate enrollment by race and ethnicity, as reported to IPEDS (College Scorecard). “International” denotes nonresident students; “Unknown” means race/ethnicity was not reported.

Student Outcomes & Risk
Median earnings (10 yr)Median earnings of former students ten years after first enrolling (working, federally-aided students).
Average
$36,144
40th percentile in peer grouppeer median $40,092
Median debt at graduationMedian federal loan debt graduates carry at the point they complete.
Average
$31,000
64th percentile in peer grouppeer median $30,250
3-yr cohort default rateShare of borrowers who default within three years of entering repayment. Lower is better.
Below peers
18.8%
95th percentile in peer grouppeer median 11.3%
Share of borrowers who defaulted within three years of entering repayment (U.S. Dept. of Education official cohort default rate). Shown for the FY2017 borrower cohort — the most recent cohort whose full three-year default window closed before the 2020-23 federal student-loan payment pause. More recent cohorts are reported by the College Scorecard at essentially 0%, but that reflects the payment pause (no payments were due, so almost no one could default), not borrower health, so the pre-pause cohort is the last meaningful reading. Lower is better.
Share taking federal loansShare of students taking out federal loans — a borrowing-reliance signal.
75.8%
65th percentile in peer grouppeer median 71.7%
Debt-to-earnings ratioMedian graduate debt divided by median earnings — how heavy the debt load is versus what graduates earn. Lower is better.
Average
0.86×
64th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0.79×
Return on credentialMedian 10-year earnings divided by the four-year cost of attendance (annual cost × 4) — a rough payback ratio for the degree.
Average
0.35×
50th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0.35×
Median 10-year earnings divided by the four-year cost of attendance (average annual cost × 4). A rough payback ratio: 1.0× means a graduate's annual 10-year earnings roughly equal the full four-year sticker cost. Earnings reflect federally-aided students; cost of attendance is the published sticker price before aid, so this is conservative relative to what families net of aid pay.
Loan repayment rate (3-yr)
25.2%
40th percentile in peer grouppeer median 28.9%
Share of student-loan borrowers who had repaid at least $1 of their loan principal within three years of entering repayment (College Scorecard, FY2024-25). Read it as context, not a simple good/bad score: a low rate can mean borrowers are struggling, but it can also mean many graduates have postponed payments while enrolled in graduate or professional school, which is common at selective schools and pushes their rate down. Unlike the cohort default rate, it is not distorted by the 2020-23 federal payment pause. Reported only where enough borrowers exist.
Top fields of study (bachelor's)

American InterContinental University-Houston’s largest fields by completions, with graduate earnings (4 years out) and debt benchmarked against the same field at its peer group. Sparklines show the 8-year completions trend.

FieldCompletions / yrMedian earnings, 4 yrs outMedian debtEarnings premiumRisk score
Business, Management & Marketing23$53,959
36th pct · 11 peers
—Above benchmark +51%Moderate · 50
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting15$45,672
22th pct · 9 peers
—Above benchmark +28%Low · 25
Computer & Information Sciences11$71,486
29th pct · 7 peers
—Above benchmark +100%Low · 2
Health Professions & Clinical Sciences1$47,083
40th pct · 5 peers
—Above benchmark +32%Moderate · 50

All 4 top fields shown clear the TX state earnings-premium benchmark (indicative).

Earnings-premium status is an indicative estimate: median graduate earnings four years out vs the TX state median earnings of a high-school graduate (undergraduate credentials) or a bachelor’s-degree holder (graduate credentials) from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2022 ACS 5-year). The official U.S. Department of Education determination uses its own cohort definition and may differ.

The risk score (0–100) is an indicative blend of earnings-premium margin and the five-year completions trend—higher means a field pays closer to (or below) the benchmark and is shrinking. A directional screen, not an official determination.

See the interactive dashboard for all fields and credential levels (associate through doctoral). Source: College Scorecard Field of Study.

Frequently asked
What is American InterContinental University-Houston's student-faculty ratio?
American InterContinental University-Houston reports a student-faculty ratio of 15:1 (IPEDS, fall 2023) — that is, about 15 students for every instructional faculty member.
How much does American InterContinental University-Houston cost?
The average published cost of attendance is $26,087 and the average net price after aid is $20,249 (College Scorecard).
How much do American InterContinental University-Houston graduates earn?
Median earnings ten years after entry are $36,144 (College Scorecard), measured across students who received federal aid.
Are American InterContinental University-Houston's programs at risk under the federal earnings-premium test?
Indicatively, at American InterContinental University-Houston, all 4 of the largest fields with available earnings data clear the TX state earnings-premium benchmark used by the 2025 federal test (effective July 1, 2026) — median graduate earnings (four years out) exceed those of a typical worker without the credential. This is an estimate using College Scorecard earnings vs ACS medians; the official Department of Education determination may differ.
Which schools are American InterContinental University-Houston's peers?
American InterContinental University-Houston is benchmarked against 22 institutions in the All private for-profit 4-year institutions peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.
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Source: U.S. Department of Education — College Scorecard & IPEDS (most recent releases), with the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Employment Projections, field-demand outlook) and WICHE (enrollment-cliff projections). Figures lag the current academic year by roughly two to three years. Percentiles and medians are computed within the institution's peer group. Financial Resilience is a transparent composite — see each component above. Compiled by Ibex Insights.