Glendale Community College
Public Community College in Glendale, CA. Six-year graduation rate 37%. Median 10-year earnings $41,540.
Students who entered Glendale Community College reach a median of $41,540 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 37% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $8,972 — modest by four-year standards. On economic mobility, 7.1% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.
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)
- ✓ Mobility score 7.1 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 37% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 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. The part-time picture is harder: 40% return, against 73% full-time. A 28:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 9,807 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $10,060 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Income makes less difference than usual: $7,902 at $0–30k, $11,964 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 67% of students at an average of $6,320. 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 · 1,392 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 | $7,902 |
| $30–48k | $7,944 |
| $48–75k | $9,747 |
| $75–110k | $13,944 |
| $110k+ | $11,964 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 320 of these 9,807 students, totalling $2,517,076 — an average of $7,866 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles 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)