Massasoit Community College
Public Community College in Brockton, MA. Six-year graduation rate 19%. Median 10-year earnings $46,111.
Ten years after entry, the median Massasoit Community College student earns $46,111 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 19% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $10,000 — 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 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 19% — below national average
Academics
Only 19% finish within six years, so roughly four in five students leave without the credential. Retention of 63% 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. 25% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 47% 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 3,760 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $8,660 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $7,194 at $0–30k, $14,416 at $110k+. 58% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,120 — common but not automatic. Only 8% 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 · 463 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 | $7,194 |
| $30–48k | $7,904 |
| $48–75k | $7,678 |
| $75–110k | $10,938 |
| $110k+ | $14,416 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 293 of these 3,760 students, totalling $1,527,228 — an average of $5,212 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Plymouth 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)