Clearfield County
Career and Technology Center
Public College in Clearfield, PA. Median 10-year earnings $41,559.
Ten-year median earnings of $41,559 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Graduates leave owing a median of $8,750 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.21 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. 63% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. At 6:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 53 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $12,202 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $13,614 at $0–30k, $16,789 at $30–48k. Grant aid reaches 79% of students at an average of $9,003. Federal borrowing reaches 25% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 17 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 | $13,614 |
| $30–48k | $16,789 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 13 of these 53 students, totalling $106,272 — an average of $8,175 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Clearfield County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026