Miller-Motte College-Charleston
For-profit Community College in Charleston, SC. Six-year graduation rate 87%. Median 10-year earnings $31,102.
Students who entered Miller-Motte College-Charleston reach a median of $31,102 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate of 87% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Median debt at graduation is $15,917, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 87% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
87% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 94%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 9:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a for-profit two-year institution, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. This is a small school — 210 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 210 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $2,359 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. 40% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 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 · 61 students
Federal student loans went to 51 of these 210 students, totalling $495,344 — an average of $9,713 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Charleston 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)