Coastal Bend College
Public Community College in Beeville, TX. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $35,086.
Students who entered Coastal Bend College reach a median of $35,086 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 25% graduate within six years.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 25% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. 40% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. At 12:1, 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 1,832 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $4,278 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($3,175 versus $10,015), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 72% of students at an average of $6,445. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 12% 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 · 259 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 | $3,175 |
| $30–48k | $3,536 |
| $48–75k | $5,120 |
| $75–110k | $9,021 |
| $110k+ | $10,015 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 215 of these 1,832 students, totalling $1,159,999 — an average of $5,395 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bee County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring, Heightened Cash Monitoring (Compliance Audit Late or Missing); Heightened Cash Monitoring; School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)