Casper College
Public Community College in Casper, WY. Six-year graduation rate 43%. Median 10-year earnings $40,935.
Students who entered Casper College reach a median of $40,935 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. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,534. It also moves people — 2.1% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution 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 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 43% finish inside six years. Retention of 66% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 16% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The part-time picture is harder: 39% return, against 66% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,239 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $8,376 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($8,216 versus $13,426), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 69% of students at an average of $5,894. 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 · 518 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 | $8,216 |
| $30–48k | $8,427 |
| $48–75k | $9,771 |
| $75–110k | $12,470 |
| $110k+ | $13,426 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 442 of these 2,239 students, totalling $2,473,890 — an average of $5,597 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Natrona 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)