Mercer County
Technical Education Center
Public Community College in Princeton, WV. Six-year graduation rate 79%. Median 10-year earnings $33,511.
Students who entered Mercer County Technical Education Center reach a median of $33,511 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is a strength: 79% of students finish within six years.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 79% — well above the national average
Academics
79% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention of 74% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 109 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 109 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $589 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $1,623 at $0–30k, $3,428 at $30–48k. Grant aid reaches 82% of students at an average of $6,463.
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 · 41 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 | $1,623 |
| $30–48k | $3,428 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Mercer 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)