Hocking College
Public Community College in Nelsonville, OH. Six-year graduation rate 37%. Median 10-year earnings $37,791.
Students who entered Hocking College reach a median of $37,791 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 37% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $11,584, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
Only 37% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential. Just 43% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. A 14% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The part-time picture is harder: 19% return, against 43% full-time. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,648 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,788 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $11,364 at $0–30k, $18,104 at $110k+. 69% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,671 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 56% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 452 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 | $11,364 |
| $30–48k | $12,869 |
| $48–75k | $13,253 |
| $75–110k | $16,848 |
| $110k+ | $18,104 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 925 of these 1,648 students, totalling $6,910,058 — an average of $7,470 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Athens 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)