Minnesota North College
Public Community College in Hibbing, MN. Six-year graduation rate 42%. Median 10-year earnings $45,570.
Students who entered Minnesota North College land at a median of $45,570 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 42%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $12,000 — 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 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 42% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 62% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 18% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The part-time picture is harder: 50% return, against 62% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,942 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $9,766 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $6,879 at the $0–30k band to $16,065 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 73% of students at an average of $6,429. Federal borrowing reaches 46% of students.
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 · 533 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 | $6,879 |
| $30–48k | $7,579 |
| $48–75k | $9,765 |
| $75–110k | $13,086 |
| $110k+ | $16,065 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 887 of these 1,942 students, totalling $4,904,689 — an average of $5,530 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (St. Louis 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)