North Central
State College
Public Community College in Mansfield, OH. Six-year graduation rate 36%. Median 10-year earnings $38,158.
Ten-year median earnings of $38,158 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is the weak point: 36% graduate within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $8,252 — 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 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Only 36% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential. First-year retention is 71% — 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. Transfer-out runs to 19% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,191 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $4,065 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($3,344 versus $7,248), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 72% of students at an average of $4,356. 30% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 192 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 | $3,344 |
| $30–48k | $2,087 |
| $48–75k | $5,076 |
| $75–110k | $7,753 |
| $110k+ | $7,248 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 360 of these 1,191 students, totalling $1,925,972 — an average of $5,350 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Richland 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)