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Public Community College

Collin County
Community College District

Public Community College in McKinney, TX. Six-year graduation rate 20%. Median 10-year earnings $48,701.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Collin County Community College District · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$48,701
Median debt at grad
$7,500
Mobility score
0.9
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
20.3%
Federal loan default
0%

Ten years after entry, the median Collin County Community College District student earns $48,701 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 20% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,500 — modest by four-year standards.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.15 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags
  • ! Mobility score 0.9 — limited economic uplift documented
  • ! Graduation rate 20% — below national average

Academics

Full-time retention
Transfer-out rate
27%
Student:faculty
21:1

Only 20% finish within six years, so roughly four in five students leave without the credential. 27% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 21:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. With 37,776 undergraduates, this is a large institution — expect the administrative scale and the range of offerings that come with it.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$6,970
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
31%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
11%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 25,860 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Students pay an average of $6,970 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($7,239 versus $14,754), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Only 31% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Only 11% 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.

% receiving grants
41%
Average grant
$6,512

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 3,608 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 $7,239
$30–48k $7,617
$48–75k $9,859
$75–110k $12,880
$110k+ $14,754

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 2,774 of these 25,860 students, totalling $10,689,199 — an average of $3,853 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Collin County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,582/mo
1 bedroom
$1,648/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,931/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
1,390
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

Compare Collin County Community College District with peer institutions

How we evaluate Collin County Community College District

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
Read our full methodology →