Great Lakes
Christian College
Private College in Lansing, MI. Six-year graduation rate 36%. Median 10-year earnings $31,053.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $31,053, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is the weak point: 36% graduate within six years. Graduates carry a median of $18,779 in debt — in line with the national norm.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.60 — elevated (above 0.60)
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 36% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Just 49% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. 24% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 157 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $16,406 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $12,510 while those at $110k+ pay $21,553. 95% of students get grant aid averaging $13,365, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 57% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 48 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 | $12,510 |
| $30–48k | $16,854 |
| $48–75k | $14,394 |
| $75–110k | $18,309 |
| $110k+ | $21,553 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 89 of these 157 students, totalling $587,586 — an average of $6,602 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Eaton County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)