Miller-Motte College-Columbus
For-profit Community College in Columbus, GA. Six-year graduation rate 13%. Median 10-year earnings $31,102.
Students who entered Miller-Motte College-Columbus reach a median of $31,102 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 13% graduate within six years. 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 13% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 13% graduate within six years. Just 45% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a for-profit two-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 396 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $21,179 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $21,138 at $0–30k, $26,891 at $75–110k. Grant aid is widespread — 95% of students receive it, averaging $7,418. 90% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 66 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 | $21,138 |
| $30–48k | $21,742 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $26,891 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 357 of these 396 students, totalling $3,580,219 — an average of $10,029 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Muscogee County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: Show Cause (Other - Provide unlisted or multiple justifications); School has an accreditation issue
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)