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After High Desert Medical College – Temecula: graduation, pay and debt

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Graduates leave with $13,555 in federal loans at the median.

The short answers

$13.6k
median federal debt at graduation.
All the federal numbers

Pay after college

Median pay 6 years after starting collegeCollege Scorecard
$31,486
Median pay 8 years after starting collegeCollege Scorecard
$37,904

Pay is for students who got federal aid and are working, counted from the year they started college, whether or not they finished.

Debt and paying it back

Median federal debt, students who graduatedCollege Scorecard
$13,555
Median federal debt, everyone who borrowed (finished or not)College Scorecard
$9,500
Median federal debt, students with a Pell GrantCollege Scorecard
$9,500
Median federal debt, students without a Pell GrantCollege Scorecard
$9,500

Federal student loans only. Private loans and Parent PLUS loans aren't counted.

Where these numbers come from

Federal college data (IPEDS and College Scorecard).

Updated May 7, 2026Spot a mistake?How we get our numbers