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Edmonds College

Public Community College in Lynnwood, WA. Six-year graduation rate 29%. Median 10-year earnings $48,144.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Edmonds College · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$48,144
Median debt at grad
$11,855
Mobility score
1.6
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
29%
Federal loan default
0%

The median ten-year earnings figure of $48,144 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Only 29% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Median debt at graduation is $11,855, a light load against those earnings.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags
  • ! Graduation rate 29% — below national average

Academics

Full-time retention
Transfer-out rate
21%
Student:faculty
11:1

Only 29% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential. Transfer-out runs to 21% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. With 6,028 undergraduates, the school sits in the middle of the size distribution.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$13,804
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
41%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
6%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,354 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price is $13,804 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $9,133 while those at $110k+ pay $20,062. 41% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. Only 6% 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.

% receiving grants
57%
Average grant
$6,855

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 401 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 $9,133
$30–48k $9,942
$48–75k $13,101
$75–110k $15,000
$110k+ $20,062

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 193 of these 3,354 students, totalling $1,356,899 — an average of $7,031 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

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

Studio
$2,074/mo
1 bedroom
$2,146/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,501/mo

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

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
145
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

Compare Edmonds College with peer institutions

How we evaluate Edmonds 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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