College of
Southern Idaho
Public Community College in Twin Falls, ID. Six-year graduation rate 33%. Median 10-year earnings $40,916.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $40,916, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 33% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $8,000 — 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 0.20 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 33% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 33% graduate within six years. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. At 25:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,508 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $7,576 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 ($4,749 versus $7,520), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 66% of students at an average of $5,468. Only 17% 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 · 674 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 | $4,749 |
| $30–48k | $5,108 |
| $48–75k | $7,017 |
| $75–110k | $9,209 |
| $110k+ | $7,520 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 613 of these 3,508 students, totalling $2,244,877 — an average of $3,662 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Twin Falls 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)