North Central
Texas College
Public Community College in Gainesville, TX. Six-year graduation rate 35%. Median 10-year earnings $45,809.
Students who entered North Central Texas College land at a median of $45,809 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 35% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $11,250 — 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 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 35% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 35% graduate within six years. Retention of 66% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 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 28% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 52% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,724 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $5,163 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: $5,439 at $0–30k, $10,096 at $110k+. Grant aid is limited — 46% of students receive any. About 27% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 802 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 | $5,439 |
| $30–48k | $5,505 |
| $48–75k | $7,059 |
| $75–110k | $8,250 |
| $110k+ | $10,096 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,533 of these 5,724 students, totalling $9,034,407 — an average of $5,893 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cooke 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)