Gordon Cooper
Technology Center
Public Community College in Shawnee, OK. Six-year graduation rate 90%. Median 10-year earnings $42,021.
Students who entered Gordon Cooper Technology Center land at a median of $42,021 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is a strength: 90% of students finish within six years.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 90% — well above the national average
Academics
A 90% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention of 78% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 15:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. At 934 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 251 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,228 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 ($311 versus $3,895), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 69% of students at an average of $4,241.
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 · 85 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 | $311 |
| $30–48k | $2,427 |
| $48–75k | $2,077 |
| $75–110k | $3,895 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pottawatomie County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026