Lansing Community College
Public Community College in Lansing, MI. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $39,206.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $39,206, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Only 25% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $12,700.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.7 — limited economic uplift documented
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 25% graduate within six years. 70% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. Transfer-out runs to 25% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The part-time picture is harder: 51% return, against 70% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 7,756 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $5,833 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 ($4,961 versus $11,709), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 53% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,178 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 21% of students.
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 · 995 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 | $4,961 |
| $30–48k | $4,202 |
| $48–75k | $6,652 |
| $75–110k | $6,583 |
| $110k+ | $11,709 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,594 of these 7,756 students, totalling $8,390,924 — an average of $5,264 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Ingham 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)