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Denver College of Nursing-Houston

Houston, TX · official site ↗

Private for-profitOther / Unclassified
73
Fin. Resilience
Resilience score

vs. 28 peers in its group

Denver College of Nursing-Houston is a private for-profit institution in Houston, TX.

It enrolls about 135 undergraduates and is benchmarked here against 28 peer institutions (Other / Unclassified · Private for-profit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 73 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 median earnings (10 yr) ($81,809, 95th percentile).

Its weakest is avg monthly faculty salary ($7,056).

Peer group

Other / Unclassified · Private for-profit

28 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.
Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed Denver College of Nursing-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 $369,123 total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

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

Tuition & fees99.7%
Other revenue0.3%

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
$20,701
54th percentile in peer grouppeer median $20,654
Instructional spend / FTESpending on instruction per FTE student — how much of the budget reaches the classroom.
Strong
$11,332
92nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $6,813
Avg monthly faculty salaryAverage monthly salary of full-time faculty (IPEDS) — a proxy for faculty investment.
Below peers
$7,056
5th percentile in peer grouppeer median $7,900
Average monthly salary of full-time faculty, as reported to IPEDS.
Operating marginNet surplus as a share of total revenue — whether the institution runs in the black.
Deficit
-261.4%
— percentile in peer group
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.
99.7%
— percentile in peer group
Tuition & fees as a share of total revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23). Higher = more exposed to enrollment swings.
Enrollment & Pipeline
Undergraduate enrollmentNumber of degree-seeking undergraduates (IPEDS fall headcount). A size measure, not a quality signal.
135
28th percentile in peer grouppeer median 334
Pell recipient shareShare of undergraduates on a federal Pell Grant — a proxy for the share from lower-income families.
42.9%
26th percentile in peer grouppeer median 60.5%
Student-faculty ratioStudents per instructional faculty member — lower usually means smaller classes and more contact.
9:1
14th percentile in peer grouppeer median 20:1
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.
Student body
Undergraduate race & ethnicity IPEDS 2024-25
Black48.1%
Asian18.5%
Hispanic/Latino14.8%
White14.1%
Unknown2.2%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander1.5%
Two or more races0.7%

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).
Strong
$81,809
95th percentile in peer grouppeer median $34,657
Median debt at graduationMedian federal loan debt graduates carry at the point they complete.
Below peers
$26,500
86th percentile in peer grouppeer median $9,500
Share taking federal loansShare of students taking out federal loans — a borrowing-reliance signal.
77.1%
26th percentile in peer grouppeer median 84%
Full-time faculty shareShare of faculty employed full-time — higher generally means more availability and continuity.
Below peers
8.8%
6th percentile in peer grouppeer median 17.7%
Debt-to-earnings ratioMedian graduate debt divided by median earnings — how heavy the debt load is versus what graduates earn. Lower is better.
Below peers
0.32×
86th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0.27×
Loan repayment rate (3-yr)
78.4%
100th percentile in peer grouppeer median 30%
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)

Denver College of Nursing-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
Health Professions & Clinical Sciences—$83,778
18th pct · 17 peers
—Above benchmark +134%Low · 0

All 1 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 Denver College of Nursing-Houston's student-faculty ratio?
Denver College of Nursing-Houston reports a student-faculty ratio of 9:1 (IPEDS, fall 2023) — that is, about 9 students for every instructional faculty member.
How much do Denver College of Nursing-Houston graduates earn?
Median earnings ten years after entry are $81,809 (College Scorecard), measured across students who received federal aid.
Are Denver College of Nursing-Houston's programs at risk under the federal earnings-premium test?
Indicatively, at Denver College of Nursing-Houston, the single largest field with available earnings data clears 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 Denver College of Nursing-Houston's peers?
Denver College of Nursing-Houston is benchmarked against 28 institutions in the Other / Unclassified · Private for-profit peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.
Compare with peers
Arizona College of Nursing-SarasotaArizona College of Nursing-St LouisArizona College of Nursing - ChesapeakeArizona College of Nursing-ClevelandArizona College of Nursing-CincinnatiCalifornia Northstate University

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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.