Florida State
College at Jacksonville
Public Community College in Jacksonville, FL. Six-year graduation rate 37%. Median 10-year earnings $42,244.
Students who entered Florida State College at Jacksonville land at a median of $42,244 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is the weak point: 37% graduate within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,562 — 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 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 37% graduate within six years. A 16% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. A 27:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. As a public four-year university, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. The undergraduate body runs to 20,530, large enough that student experience varies widely by program.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 17,739 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $2,727 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $2,563 at $0–30k, $9,233 at $110k+. 53% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,899 — common but not automatic. Only 22% 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 · 1,285 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 | $2,563 |
| $30–48k | $3,202 |
| $48–75k | $5,508 |
| $75–110k | $7,897 |
| $110k+ | $9,233 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 3,864 of these 17,739 students, totalling $27,568,295 — an average of $7,135 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Duval 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)