College of
Central Florida
Public Community College in Ocala, FL. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $38,203.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,203, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 45%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $13,000.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.34 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
45% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Transfer-out runs to 16% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 19:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. The undergraduate population is 5,747 — big enough for a real range of programs, small enough to navigate.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 4,717 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $11,292 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($11,096 versus $18,424), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 67% of students at an average of $5,358. Only 22% 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 · 745 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 | $11,096 |
| $30–48k | $11,635 |
| $48–75k | $14,020 |
| $75–110k | $17,279 |
| $110k+ | $18,424 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,015 of these 4,717 students, totalling $6,604,893 — an average of $6,507 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Marion 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)