Genesee Community College
Public Community College in Batavia, NY. Six-year graduation rate 31%. Median 10-year earnings $39,674.
Ten-year median earnings of $39,674 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is the weak point: 31% graduate within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $11,622 — 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 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 31% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 31% graduate within six years. 57% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. 19% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 35% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,966 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $7,908 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 $4,635 while those at $110k+ pay $15,098. Grant aid reaches 65% of students at an average of $7,599. Federal borrowing reaches 45% 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 · 509 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 | $4,635 |
| $30–48k | $5,900 |
| $48–75k | $9,715 |
| $75–110k | $13,186 |
| $110k+ | $15,098 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 880 of these 1,966 students, totalling $5,016,784 — an average of $5,701 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Genesee 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)