Metro Technology Centers
Public Community College in Oklahoma City, OK. Six-year graduation rate 35%. Median 10-year earnings $38,830.
Ten-year median earnings of $38,830 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Only 35% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — 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 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 35% graduate within six years. 75% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. The part-time picture is harder: 58% return, against 75% full-time. At 5:1, 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 660 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $4,561 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: $4,172 at $0–30k, $11,378 at $110k+. Only 39% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. 10% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 302 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 | $4,172 |
| $30–48k | $1,802 |
| $48–75k | $3,151 |
| $75–110k | $8,784 |
| $110k+ | $11,378 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 68 of these 660 students, totalling $527,974 — an average of $7,764 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Oklahoma 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)