Meridian Technology Center
Public Community College in Stillwater, OK. Six-year graduation rate 48%. Median 10-year earnings $34,451.
Students who entered Meridian Technology Center reach a median of $34,451 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 48% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
Academics
Completion is middling: 48% finish inside six years. Retention of 75% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. The part-time picture is harder: 64% return, against 75% full-time. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 409 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $11,996 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. 53% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,769 — common but not automatic.
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 · 58 students
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Payne County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026