Eastern Florida
State College
Public Community College in Melbourne, FL. Six-year graduation rate 52%. Median 10-year earnings $37,195.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $37,195, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Six-year completion sits at 52%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $12,250 — 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 0.33 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 52% finish inside six years. Transfer-out runs to 13% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 22:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. As a public four-year university, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. With 13,601 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 10,162 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $6,738 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $4,858 at $0–30k, $11,623 at $110k+. 52% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,327 — common but not automatic. Only 20% 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 · 1,217 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 | $4,858 |
| $30–48k | $5,658 |
| $48–75k | $7,600 |
| $75–110k | $9,722 |
| $110k+ | $11,623 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,069 of these 10,162 students, totalling $12,193,412 — an average of $5,893 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Brevard 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)