Northwest Vista College
Public Community College in San Antonio, TX. Six-year graduation rate 32%. Median 10-year earnings $42,490.
Students who entered Northwest Vista College land at a median of $42,490 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is the weak point: 32% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $9,400, 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 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 32% — below national average
Academics
Only 32% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential. A 21% 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. The 33:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. The undergraduate body runs to 18,808, large enough that student experience varies widely by program.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 13,872 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $5,813 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($3,178 versus $10,517), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 49% of students receive any. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 3% of students.
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 · 1,663 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 | $3,178 |
| $30–48k | $4,204 |
| $48–75k | $5,752 |
| $75–110k | $7,633 |
| $110k+ | $10,517 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 435 of these 13,872 students, totalling $2,432,613 — an average of $5,592 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bexar 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)