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Community College
Public Community College in Bronx, NY. Six-year graduation rate 16%. Median 10-year earnings $40,485.
Ten-year median earnings of $40,485 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is the weak point: 16% graduate within six years. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $8,442. On economic mobility, 6.5% 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 0.21 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Mobility score 6.5 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 16% — below national average
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 16% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Just 54% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 17% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The part-time picture is harder: 44% return, against 54% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 4,883 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $5,556 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Net price varies modestly by income — $4,541 at $0–30k against $12,248 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. About 82% get grants averaging $5,907, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Only 7% 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 · 854 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 | $4,541 |
| $30–48k | $5,401 |
| $48–75k | $7,615 |
| $75–110k | $9,074 |
| $110k+ | $12,248 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 333 of these 4,883 students, totalling $1,872,261 — an average of $5,622 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bronx 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)