Louisiana Delta
Community College
Public Community College in Monroe, LA. Six-year graduation rate 30%. Median 10-year earnings $30,438.
Students who entered Louisiana Delta Community College reach a median of $30,438 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Only 30% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $12,500.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 30% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 30% graduate within six years. Retention is weak: only 57% of full-time first-years return, so roughly two in five leave after one 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. Retention drops to 35% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,933 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $7,102 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($7,145 versus $13,215), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 94% of students get grant aid averaging $4,630, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 50% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 407 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 | $7,145 |
| $30–48k | $6,837 |
| $48–75k | $7,626 |
| $75–110k | $10,923 |
| $110k+ | $13,215 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,471 of these 2,933 students, totalling $9,624,537 — an average of $6,543 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Ouachita Parish) — 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)