Brunswick Community College
Public Community College in Bolivia, NC. Six-year graduation rate 40%. Median 10-year earnings $36,668.
Students who entered Brunswick Community College reach a median of $36,668 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 40%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ! Mobility score 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
40% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 66% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. 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. A 14% 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,124 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $10,360 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $8,748 at $0–30k, $9,138 at $110k+. About 70% get grants averaging $4,713, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price.
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 · 228 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 | $8,748 |
| $30–48k | $9,083 |
| $48–75k | $9,985 |
| $75–110k | $7,481 |
| $110k+ | $9,138 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Brunswick 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)