Four Rivers
Career Center
Public College in Washington, MO. Median 10-year earnings $48,199.
Ten years after entry, the median Four Rivers Career Center student earns $48,199 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Median debt at graduation is $10,623, 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 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Retention of 60% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 26 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $27,746 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $48–75k bands is narrow ($27,652 versus $29,891), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 81% get grants averaging $9,756, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Most students borrow — 96% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 5 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 | $27,652 |
| $30–48k | $25,883 |
| $48–75k | $29,891 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 25 of these 26 students, totalling $208,840 — an average of $8,354 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Franklin County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026