Hill College
Public Community College in Hillsboro, TX. Six-year graduation rate 32%. Median 10-year earnings $39,572.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $39,572, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is the weak point: 32% graduate within six years. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,000. On economic mobility, 2.5% 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 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 32% — below national average
Academics
Only 32% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential. Just 51% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 18% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 14:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,269 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,481 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 $110k+ bands is narrow ($4,906 versus $12,864), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Most students get help: 100% receive grants worth $3,889 on average. 30% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 357 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 | $4,906 |
| $30–48k | $5,422 |
| $48–75k | $7,237 |
| $75–110k | $10,422 |
| $110k+ | $12,864 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 673 of these 2,269 students, totalling $3,785,109 — an average of $5,624 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hill 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)