Bossier Parish
Community College
Public Community College in Bossier City, LA. Six-year graduation rate 15%. Median 10-year earnings $34,502.
Ten-year median earnings of $34,502 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Only 15% finish within six years, so roughly four in five students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $17,500, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 15% — below national average
Academics
Only 15% finish within six years, so roughly four in five students leave without the credential. 49% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. 19% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 25% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,064 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $10,992 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($10,066 versus $15,240), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 67% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,024 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 48% of students.
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 · 695 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 | $10,066 |
| $30–48k | $9,543 |
| $48–75k | $12,040 |
| $75–110k | $14,456 |
| $110k+ | $15,240 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,411 of these 5,064 students, totalling $16,521,496 — an average of $6,853 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bossier Parish) — 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)