John C
Calhoun State Community College
Public Community College in Tanner, AL. Six-year graduation rate 41%. Median 10-year earnings $38,192.
Students who entered John C Calhoun State Community College reach a median of $38,192 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 42%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $12,000, 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
Academics
Completion is middling: 42% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 65% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. 17% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 48% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 6,928 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $7,388 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($5,217 versus $12,404), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 54% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,725 — common but not automatic. Only 23% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 1,175 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 | $5,217 |
| $30–48k | $6,903 |
| $48–75k | $8,807 |
| $75–110k | $11,039 |
| $110k+ | $12,404 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,562 of these 6,928 students, totalling $8,856,147 — an average of $5,670 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Limestone 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)