Sonoran Desert Institute
Tempe, Arizona
- Trade or career school
- Private for-profit
- City
- 5,435 students
- Online only
What you can study
Programs this school reported awarding, with how many students finished one in the latest year. Where the federal data has it, we show what this school's graduates earned a year after finishing (for graduates from a few years back, so a program can show earnings even if few finished recently). The national figure is for everyone who finished that kind of program anywhere.
Engineering technology
- Electromechanical Technologies/TechniciansCertificate · 248 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $55,608
Other programs (2)
- Precision Systems Maintenance and Repair Technologies/TechniciansCertificate · 1,153 finishedGraduates here earned $53,029 a year afterNationally: $44,679
- Precision Systems Maintenance and Repair Technologies/TechniciansAssociate degree · 968 finishedGraduates here earned $55,623 a year afterNationally: $48,814
What it really costs
Net price is what students paid after grants and scholarships.
- Average net price
- $21,738per year, students who got grant aidSource: College Scorecard
- Total cost of attendance
- $26,598sticker price incl. living costs, per yearSource: College Scorecard
- Tuition
- $12,200Source: College Scorecard
- Students with federal loans
- 22%Source: College Scorecard
How students do
- Finish their program
- 45%first-time, full-time students finishing within 1.5 times the normal lengthSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings
- $51,8766 years after starting, students who got federal aidSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings, later
- Not reported10 years after startingSource: College Scorecard
- Median debt at completion
- $11,306federal loans, students who finishedSource: College Scorecard
- Earned a degree or certificate here
- 45%all students who started, 8 years laterSource: College Scorecard
- Left for another college before finishing
- 9%all students who started, 8 years laterSource: College Scorecard
Where these numbers come from
Every number on this page comes from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard page for Sonoran Desert Institute, which draws on what the school reports to the federal government and on federal student aid and tax records. Program earnings cover graduates who received federal student aid. We last pulled the data on November 6, 2026.
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