North Idaho College
Public Community College in Coeur d'Alene, ID. Six-year graduation rate 38%. Median 10-year earnings $40,081.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $40,081, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is the weak point: 38% graduate within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,000 — 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
Completion is the problem here: 38% graduate within six years. 63% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. 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. 17% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The part-time picture is harder: 43% return, against 63% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,479 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $13,637 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $7,775 at $0–30k versus $15,845 at $110k+. 64% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,327 — common but not automatic. 25% 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 · 439 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 | $7,775 |
| $30–48k | $9,741 |
| $48–75k | $10,577 |
| $75–110k | $14,496 |
| $110k+ | $15,845 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 618 of these 2,479 students, totalling $2,805,131 — an average of $4,539 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kootenai 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)