Nash Community College
Public Community College in Rocky Mount, NC. Six-year graduation rate 41%. Median 10-year earnings $34,912.
Ten-year median earnings of $34,912 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. The six-year graduation rate is 41%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $11,500 — 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 0.33 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
41% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. First-year retention is 75% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. 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. 28% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 61% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,424 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $5,263 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: $2,138 at $0–30k, $8,661 at $75–110k. Grant aid reaches 67% of students at an average of $4,478. Only 9% 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 · 206 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 | $2,138 |
| $30–48k | $2,959 |
| $48–75k | $4,183 |
| $75–110k | $8,661 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 129 of these 1,424 students, totalling $764,856 — an average of $5,929 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Nash 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)