College of
Coastal Georgia
Public College in Brunswick, GA. Six-year graduation rate 30%. Median 10-year earnings $39,318.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $39,318, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Only 30% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates leave owing a median of $15,039 — modest by four-year standards.
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 30% — below national average
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 98% of applicants are accepted. 2,627 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. About 30% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 10% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 465–570 | 75 (10%) |
| SAT Math | 410–530 | |
| ACT Composite | 17–22 | 38 (5%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is the problem here: 30% graduate within six years. 59% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. 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. With 40% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. The part-time picture is harder: 40% return, against 59% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,805 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $14,941 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($13,298 versus $19,646), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 73% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,196 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 32% 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 · 594 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 | $13,298 |
| $30–48k | $13,494 |
| $48–75k | $16,022 |
| $75–110k | $18,785 |
| $110k+ | $19,646 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 908 of these 2,805 students, totalling $5,546,374 — an average of $6,108 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Glynn 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)