Davidson-Davie Community College
Public Community College in Thomasville, NC. Six-year graduation rate 46%. Median 10-year earnings $36,337.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $36,337, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 46%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $10,500 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
46% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 66% 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. Transfer-out runs to 13% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. Retention drops to 48% 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 2,457 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $8,797 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $8,564 at $0–30k, $10,280 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 70% of students at an average of $6,547. 30% 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 · 285 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 | $8,564 |
| $30–48k | $7,219 |
| $48–75k | $8,963 |
| $75–110k | $10,920 |
| $110k+ | $10,280 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 738 of these 2,457 students, totalling $5,100,112 — an average of $6,911 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Davidson 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)