Connors State College
Public Community College in Warner, OK. Six-year graduation rate 36%. Median 10-year earnings $38,469.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,469, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Only 36% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $11,500. On economic mobility, 2.3% of students travel from the bottom income quintile 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 0.30 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 36% graduate within six years. First-year retention is 66% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. A 13% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. Retention drops to 47% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,606 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $11,185 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($9,493 versus $14,701), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Most students get help: 85% receive grants worth $6,381 on average. 29% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 378 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 | $9,493 |
| $30–48k | $9,845 |
| $48–75k | $11,202 |
| $75–110k | $13,283 |
| $110k+ | $14,701 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 465 of these 1,606 students, totalling $3,025,683 — an average of $6,507 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Muskogee 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)