Columbia-Greene Community College
Public Community College in Hudson, NY. Six-year graduation rate 46%. Median 10-year earnings $44,441.
Students who entered Columbia-Greene Community College land at a median of $44,441 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 46%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $12,000. It also moves people — 2.2% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
46% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 63% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. 14% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 17:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 939 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $7,948 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $4,979 at $0–30k versus $13,103 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 73% of students at an average of $5,002. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 14% 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 · 195 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 | $4,979 |
| $30–48k | $4,173 |
| $48–75k | $8,800 |
| $75–110k | $10,637 |
| $110k+ | $13,103 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 131 of these 939 students, totalling $762,947 — an average of $5,824 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Columbia 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)