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Central Community College

Public Community College in Grand Island, NE. Six-year graduation rate 48%. Median 10-year earnings $39,429.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Central Community College · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$39,429
Median debt at grad
$7,992
Mobility score
1.0
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
48.1%
Federal loan default
0%

Students who entered Central Community College reach a median of $39,429 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 48%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $7,992, a light load against those earnings.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.20 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags
  • ! Mobility score 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented

Academics

Full-time retention
69%
Transfer-out rate
12%
Student:faculty
16:1

Six-year completion sits at 48%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. First-year retention is 69% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. A 12% 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. The part-time picture is harder: 45% return, against 69% full-time.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$7,856
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
64%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
19%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,206 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price is $7,856 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Income makes less difference than usual: $5,609 at $0–30k, $11,829 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 64% of students at an average of $5,065. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 19% 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.

% receiving grants
85%
Average grant
$6,165

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 596 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 $5,609
$30–48k $6,217
$48–75k $6,027
$75–110k $9,208
$110k+ $11,829

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 596 of these 3,206 students, totalling $2,744,729 — an average of $4,605 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Hall County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$867/mo
1 bedroom
$978/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,215/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
81
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Central Community College

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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