North Hennepin
Community College
Public Community College in Brooklyn Park, MN. Six-year graduation rate 22%. Median 10-year earnings $51,142.
Students who entered North Hennepin Community College land at a median of $51,142 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is the weak point: 22% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $14,750, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 22% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 22% graduate within six years. First-year retention is 60% — 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. With 34% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. Retention drops to 47% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,299 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $11,872 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $10,326 at $0–30k, $17,115 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 62% of students at an average of $4,339. 23% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 354 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 | $10,326 |
| $30–48k | $10,652 |
| $48–75k | $11,723 |
| $75–110k | $14,193 |
| $110k+ | $17,115 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 761 of these 3,299 students, totalling $5,499,904 — an average of $7,227 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hennepin 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)