Cypress College
Public Community College in Cypress, CA. Six-year graduation rate 37%. Median 10-year earnings $43,533.
Students who entered Cypress College land at a median of $43,533 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is the weak point: 37% graduate within six years. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,000.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 37% graduate within six years. The 25:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. As a public four-year university, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. With 14,021 undergraduates, this is a large institution — expect the administrative scale and the range of offerings that come with it.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 12,311 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $7,253 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Income makes less difference than usual: $3,419 at $0–30k, $10,001 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 69% of students at an average of $4,988. 2% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 1,821 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 | $3,419 |
| $30–48k | $3,663 |
| $48–75k | $6,222 |
| $75–110k | $10,163 |
| $110k+ | $10,001 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 195 of these 12,311 students, totalling $1,410,391 — an average of $7,233 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Orange 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)