Florida Gateway College
Public Community College in Lake City, FL. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $37,894.
Ten-year median earnings of $37,894 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. The six-year graduation rate is 54%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $6,992.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.18 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion sits at 54%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. Transfer-out runs to 14% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. With 2,837 undergraduates, the school sits in the middle of the size distribution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,231 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,833 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 $3,638 while those at $110k+ pay $11,870. Grant aid reaches 68% of students at an average of $7,074. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 20% of students.
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 · 352 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 | $3,638 |
| $30–48k | $4,529 |
| $48–75k | $6,762 |
| $75–110k | $10,221 |
| $110k+ | $11,870 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 436 of these 2,231 students, totalling $2,154,024 — an average of $4,940 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Columbia 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)