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National Career Institute
134 Evergreen Place, East Orange, NJ 07018 · Private for-profit less-than-2-year · (973) 678-3901 · School website
Career programs at National Career Institute
National Career Institute reported 114 certificate and associate completions in 3 of the program types we track for 2023-24, most of them in medical assistant (49). College Scorecard counts 249 undergraduates.
| Program | Award | Length | Program cost | Completions | Earnings, 1 yr | Funding and results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical assistant | Certificate | 37 credit hours, 9 months | $15,100 | 49 | $21,968 | WIOA list |
| Electrician | Certificate | 640 clock hours, 8 months | $10,000 | 47 | $22,597 | WIOA list |
| HVAC | Certificate | 400 clock hours, 5 months | $4,800 | 18 | Not published | WIOA list |
Program cost is the whole-program tuition and fees a clock-hour school reports to IPEDS for its largest programs (2024-25). Earnings are College Scorecard medians for graduates of this school in that field, one year after completing; small cohorts are not published. WIOA list means the program appears on the state's eligible training provider list in the U.S. Department of Labor file (programs listed as of June 30, 2025).
Cost and aid at National Career Institute
What a year costs, 2024-25
- Average net price after grantsCollege Scorecard, students with federal aid
- $25,261
- Median federal debt at graduationCollege Scorecard, all programs
- $6,756
- Median earnings 10 years after entryCollege Scorecard, all students
- $26,415
Clock-hour schools charge by program, not by year: see each program's own page for its whole-program cost.
- National Career Institute net price calculator (link from IPEDS)
- Financial aid office page (link from IPEDS)
How training gets paid for: Pell Grants, Workforce Pell, WIOA, GI Bill.
More National Career Institute programs on the WIOA list
People who meet WIOA's rules for training services can have their local workforce board pay for a program on the state's eligible training provider list. Limits vary by area. How WIOA training funds work.
| Listed program | Tuition and fees | Length | Completed | Employed, 2nd quarter | Median earnings, 2nd quarter | Students who exited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Billing and Coding SpecialistIn person · CIP 51.0713 | $2,500+ $40 books | Competency-based or withheld | 75% | Suppressed | Suppressed | 8 |
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, TrainingProviderResults.gov program file (ETA-9171): programs on state lists as of June 30, 2025; outcomes for all students who exited between July 2021 and June 2025, not only WIOA-funded ones. Median earnings are one quarter's pay in the second quarter after exit. Suppressed means DOL withheld the figure (a small group, nothing reported, or a data quality hold); for length it can also mean a competency-based program. IPEDS does not list these program types at this campus. Matched to National Career Institute by provider name and place, by DOL's provider ID, or as another site of the school (its exact name or website, the only match in the state; "Listed at" names that site's town).
DOL marks this state's outcome reporting with a data quality note: read completion and employment figures with care.
Other medical assistant programs within 40 miles
- New Community Career & Technical InstituteNewark, NJ · 2.1 mi · $8,610
- Healthcare Training InstituteUnion, NJ · 5.1 mi · $16,500
- Eastwick College-NutleyNutley, NJ · 5.3 mi
- Hudson County Community CollegeJersey City, NJ · 8.6 mi
- Garden State Science and Technology InstituteJersey City, NJ · 8.7 mi · $15,471
- Fortis Institute-WayneWayne, NJ · 8.8 mi · $16,669