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Wallace State Community College-Selma
Public Community College in Selma, AL. Six-year graduation rate 41%. Median 10-year earnings $31,598.
Ten-year median earnings of $31,598 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. The six-year graduation rate is 41%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
Academics
Completion is middling: 41% finish inside six years. 63% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. Transfer-out runs to 14% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The part-time picture is harder: 36% return, against 63% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 828 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $8,787 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($8,948 versus $8,060), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 85% of students get grant aid averaging $8,488, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay.
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 · 238 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 | $8,948 |
| $30–48k | $10,148 |
| $48–75k | $11,516 |
| $75–110k | $8,060 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Dallas 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)