American Career College-Los Angeles Diagnostic and Treatment Professions (Associate's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Associate's in Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions
- Private for-profit college
- Los Angeles, CA
- About 110 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
American Career College-Los Angeles diagnostic and treatment professions graduates earn about what diagnostic and treatment professions graduates earn nationally, $55,379 in their first year. Debt is high. The typical graduate leaves with $25,593 in federal loans, more than at 86% of diagnostic and treatment professions programs in the country. Several California programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The California and national columns are the medians across all diagnostic and treatment professions associate's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, American Career College-Los Angeles graduates earn less than the national figure and about $21,333 less than the California median.
Debt and first-year pay at every California diagnostic and treatment professions program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the California medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 2% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Does family income change the outcome?
Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned $6,694 less in their first year than other graduates. Students who expect to rely on grants should weigh this gap.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $271 a month, or 5.9% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual. Separately, 59 parents took out Parent PLUS loans for these students, with a median of $13,771.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
91% of graduates (189 of 207) were working in California one year after graduating. Prices in the Los Angeles area are about 14% above the national average, so a $55,379 salary here buys what about $48,764 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to diagnostic and treatment professions, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
$121,260Median pay in California. 20,900 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 13,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: associate's degree.
Emergency Medical Technicians
$46,380Median pay in California. 21,880 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 13,800 openings a year. Typical education to start: postsecondary nondegree award.
Physician Assistants
$165,650Median pay in California. 13,600 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 21% from 2025 to 2035, with about 11,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: master's degree.
Respiratory Therapists
$104,820Median pay in California. 18,650 people work in this job in California. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 9% from 2025 to 2035, with about 8,600 openings a year. Typical education to start: associate's degree.
About American Career College-Los Angeles
Diagnostic and Treatment Professions ranks 2nd of 3 associate's programs at American Career College-Los Angeles by first-year earnings. The others are Nursing ($105,516) and Allied Health and Medical Assisting ($48,908).
Other diagnostic and treatment professions associate's programs near Los Angeles
Common questions
The median graduate earns $55,379 one year after graduating and $56,424 five years after. The median across diagnostic and treatment professions associate's programs in California is $60,191.
The median federal loan balance is $25,593, which ranks 19th lowest of 22 diagnostic and treatment professions associate's programs in California. That works out to about $271 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 46% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 34%. Compare the cost with other California programs before deciding.
Most do. 91% (189 of 207) were working in California one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of California comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the diagnostic and treatment professions program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024