Northeast Mississippi
Community College
Public Community College in Booneville, MS. Six-year graduation rate 34%. Median 10-year earnings $34,081.
Students who entered Northeast Mississippi Community College reach a median of $34,081 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Only 34% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,722 — 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 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 34% — below national average
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 34% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Retention of 68% 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. A 26% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,640 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $6,711 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price varies modestly by income — $6,771 at $0–30k against $11,542 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid is widespread — 91% of students receive it, averaging $6,141. Only 18% 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 · 880 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 | $6,771 |
| $30–48k | $6,265 |
| $48–75k | $8,913 |
| $75–110k | $11,490 |
| $110k+ | $11,542 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 487 of these 2,640 students, totalling $2,726,716 — an average of $5,599 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Prentiss County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Compliance Audit Late or Missing); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)