Alamance Community College
Public Community College in Graham, NC. Six-year graduation rate 39%. Median 10-year earnings $34,241.
Students who entered Alamance Community College reach a median of $34,241 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 39% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ! Mobility score 0.4 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 39% graduate within six years. Retention of 72% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. A 19% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. At 18:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,393 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $7,566 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Net price varies modestly by income — $4,914 at $0–30k against $10,344 at $75–110k — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 59% of students at an average of $8,048.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 244 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $4,914 |
| $30–48k | $5,328 |
| $48–75k | $8,374 |
| $75–110k | $10,344 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Alamance County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)