Cisco College
Public Community College in Cisco, TX. Six-year graduation rate 30%. Median 10-year earnings $39,092.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $39,092, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is the weak point: 30% graduate within six years. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,500. It also moves people — 2.9% 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 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 30% — below national average
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 30% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. First-year retention is 67% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. Transfer-out runs to 23% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The part-time picture is harder: 36% return, against 67% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,638 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $10,189 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($8,287 versus $15,838), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 57% get grants averaging $5,927, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Only 11% 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 · 325 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 | $8,287 |
| $30–48k | $9,069 |
| $48–75k | $10,586 |
| $75–110k | $13,228 |
| $110k+ | $15,838 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 185 of these 1,638 students, totalling $1,044,790 — an average of $5,648 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Eastland 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)