Carl Albert
State College
Public Community College in Poteau, OK. Six-year graduation rate 43%. Median 10-year earnings $34,117.
Students who entered Carl Albert State College reach a median of $34,117 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 43%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $9,362, a light load against those earnings. On economic mobility, 2.5% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion sits at 43%, meaning about three in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Just 10% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. At 23:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 1,579 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,114 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $14,935 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($13,902 versus $20,618), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 94% of students get grant aid averaging $8,157, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Only 20% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 304 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 | $13,902 |
| $30–48k | $13,399 |
| $48–75k | $16,156 |
| $75–110k | $20,618 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 227 of these 1,114 students, totalling $1,333,178 — an average of $5,873 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Le Flore 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)