Central Wyoming College
Public Community College in Riverton, WY. Six-year graduation rate 37%. Median 10-year earnings $34,402.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $34,402, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is the weak point: 37% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $8,361, a light load against those earnings. On economic mobility, 2.3% 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 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 37% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. 65% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 19% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 999 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $8,283 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($10,698 versus $16,891), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 79% of students at an average of $7,030. 20% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 219 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 | $10,698 |
| $30–48k | $10,235 |
| $48–75k | $12,262 |
| $75–110k | $15,871 |
| $110k+ | $16,891 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 204 of these 999 students, totalling $1,086,490 — an average of $5,326 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Fremont 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)