Lake-Sumter State College
Public Community College in Leesburg, FL. Six-year graduation rate 48%. Median 10-year earnings $39,876.
Students who entered Lake-Sumter State College reach a median of $39,876 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 48%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $6,750, 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 0.17 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 48% finish inside six years. A 23% 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 28:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. 5,064 undergraduates makes this a mid-sized institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,572 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $6,552 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($4,127 versus $11,484), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 61% get grants averaging $4,572, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 59% 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 · 574 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 | $4,127 |
| $30–48k | $5,356 |
| $48–75k | $6,952 |
| $75–110k | $10,749 |
| $110k+ | $11,484 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,120 of these 3,572 students, totalling $2,020,476 — an average of $953 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lake 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)