Northeast Alabama
Community College
Public Community College in Rainsville, AL. Six-year graduation rate 56%. Median 10-year earnings $34,913.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $34,913, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Six-year completion sits at 56%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $6,100 — modest by four-year standards. On economic mobility, 2.2% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.17 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
56% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 69% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. A 17:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. This is a public community college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,547 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $6,054 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $1,451 at $0–30k, $5,648 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 79% of students at an average of $5,918. Only 22% 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 · 377 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 | $1,451 |
| $30–48k | $2,130 |
| $48–75k | $5,212 |
| $75–110k | $7,316 |
| $110k+ | $5,648 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 347 of these 1,547 students, totalling $1,263,861 — an average of $3,642 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Jackson 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)