Illinois Valley
Community College
Public Community College in Oglesby, IL. Six-year graduation rate 42%. Median 10-year earnings $40,810.
Ten-year median earnings of $40,810 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Six-year completion sits at 42%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $8,233, 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 0.20 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.9 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
Completion is middling: 42% finish inside six years. Retention of 71% 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. Transfer-out runs to 18% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 15:1, 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 1,851 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $3,437 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 ($191 versus $7,864), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 66% get grants averaging $6,273, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 4% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 367 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 | $191 |
| $30–48k | $866 |
| $48–75k | $4,431 |
| $75–110k | $7,839 |
| $110k+ | $7,864 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 66 of these 1,851 students, totalling $320,540 — an average of $4,857 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (LaSalle 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)