Atlanta Technical College
Public Community College in Atlanta, GA. Six-year graduation rate 49%. Median 10-year earnings $30,350.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $30,350, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 49%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 49% finish inside six years. Retention of 65% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. Retention drops to 43% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. 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 3,044 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $-448 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $-1,731 at $0–30k versus $7,293 at $110k+. 77% of students receive grant aid, averaging $7,661 — common but not automatic. About 46% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 299 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 | $-1,731 |
| $30–48k | $-1,264 |
| $48–75k | $462 |
| $75–110k | $5,413 |
| $110k+ | $7,293 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,410 of these 3,044 students, totalling $9,685,166 — an average of $6,869 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Fulton 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)