Central Ohio
Technical College
Public Community College in Newark, OH. Six-year graduation rate 30%. Median 10-year earnings $39,168.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $39,168, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is the weak point: 30% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $12,072, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 30% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 30% graduate within six years. First-year retention of 100% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. Transfer-out runs to 14% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,541 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $9,115 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: $9,305 at $0–30k, $13,577 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 70% of students at an average of $4,674. 30% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 144 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 | $9,305 |
| $30–48k | $9,867 |
| $48–75k | $11,473 |
| $75–110k | $11,428 |
| $110k+ | $13,577 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 457 of these 1,541 students, totalling $2,405,785 — an average of $5,264 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Licking 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)