Foothill College
Public Community College in Los Altos Hills, CA. Six-year graduation rate 56%. Median 10-year earnings $57,072.
Ten years after entry, the median Foothill College student earns $57,072 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 56%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $10,500, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.18 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 56% finish inside six years. At 26:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. With 13,382 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 11,240 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $10,805 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price varies modestly by income — $6,571 at $0–30k against $14,237 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Only 31% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Only 3% 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 · 939 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 | $6,571 |
| $30–48k | $6,390 |
| $48–75k | $9,389 |
| $75–110k | $11,193 |
| $110k+ | $14,237 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 288 of these 11,240 students, totalling $1,863,176 — an average of $6,469 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Santa Clara 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)