Lewis and
Clark Community College
Public Community College in Godfrey, IL. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $37,724.
Ten-year median earnings of $37,724 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Six-year completion sits at 44%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $6,751 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.18 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
44% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 70% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 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. A 15% 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,328 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $2,781 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Income makes less difference than usual: $721 at $0–30k, $8,517 at $110k+. 68% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,354 — common but not automatic. Only 18% 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 · 422 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 | $721 |
| $30–48k | $1,461 |
| $48–75k | $4,651 |
| $75–110k | $6,522 |
| $110k+ | $8,517 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 423 of these 2,328 students, totalling $1,789,584 — an average of $4,231 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Madison 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)