College of
Southern Nevada
Public Community College in Las Vegas, NV. Six-year graduation rate 19%. Median 10-year earnings $38,087.
Students who entered College of Southern Nevada reach a median of $38,087 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 19% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $8,000, a light load against those earnings.
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
- ! Graduation rate 19% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 19% graduate within six years. Transfer-out runs to 15% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. The undergraduate body runs to 28,631, large enough that student experience varies widely by program.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 27,341 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $7,205 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($5,627 versus $13,022), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 42% of students receive any. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 10% 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 · 3,123 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 | $5,627 |
| $30–48k | $6,178 |
| $48–75k | $7,793 |
| $75–110k | $9,753 |
| $110k+ | $13,022 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,858 of these 27,341 students, totalling $10,729,874 — an average of $3,754 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Clark 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)