Mountwest Community
and Technical College
Public Community College in Huntington, WV. Six-year graduation rate 19%. Median 10-year earnings $28,951.
Students who entered Mountwest Community and Technical College reach a median of $28,951 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 19% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,446 — 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
- ! Graduation rate 19% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 19% graduate within six years. Retention is weak: only 38% of full-time first-years return, so roughly three in five leave after one year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. At 12:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,098 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $8,483 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($7,895 versus $15,667), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 72% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,265 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 32% 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 · 268 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 | $7,895 |
| $30–48k | $9,539 |
| $48–75k | $9,321 |
| $75–110k | $11,178 |
| $110k+ | $15,667 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 353 of these 1,098 students, totalling $1,559,096 — an average of $4,417 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cabell 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)