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Eastern Arizona College

Public Community College in Thatcher, AZ. Six-year graduation rate 42%. Median 10-year earnings $38,018.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Eastern Arizona College · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$38,018
Mobility score
2.3
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
41.9%

Students who entered Eastern Arizona College reach a median of $38,018 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 42%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. 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.

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Academics

Full-time retention
Transfer-out rate
16%
Student:faculty
16:1

Six-year completion sits at 42%, meaning about three in five students who enroll leave without finishing. 16% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. The undergraduate population is 5,076 — big enough for a real range of programs, small enough to navigate.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$9,400
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
48%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,137 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

At $9,400 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $8,046 at $0–30k, $12,243 at $110k+. 48% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants.

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.

% receiving grants
68%
Average grant
$9,593

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 593 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 $8,046
$30–48k $8,612
$48–75k $10,731
$75–110k $11,682
$110k+ $12,243

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Graham County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$887/mo
1 bedroom
$991/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,244/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
52
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

Compare Eastern Arizona College with peer institutions

How we evaluate Eastern Arizona College

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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