Mid-Plains Community College
Public Community College in North Platte, NE. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $40,059.
Students who entered Mid-Plains Community College reach a median of $40,059 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 54%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,995 — 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 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
54% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 63% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 14% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The part-time picture is harder: 37% return, against 63% full-time. The 11:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 923 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,341 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: $4,853 at $0–30k, $10,031 at $110k+. 75% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,425 — common but not automatic. Only 24% 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 · 318 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 | $4,853 |
| $30–48k | $3,390 |
| $48–75k | $4,329 |
| $75–110k | $6,934 |
| $110k+ | $10,031 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 218 of these 923 students, totalling $1,242,496 — an average of $5,700 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lincoln 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)