Onondaga Community College
Public Community College in Syracuse, NY. Six-year graduation rate 27%. Median 10-year earnings $41,190.
Students who entered Onondaga Community College reach a median of $41,190 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 27% graduate within six years. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,000.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.9 — limited economic uplift documented
- ! Graduation rate 27% — below national average
Academics
Only 27% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential. 55% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 20% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 36% 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 4,349 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $7,788 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $5,490 at the $0–30k band to $15,707 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 63% of students at an average of $7,668. 34% 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 · 1,311 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 | $5,490 |
| $30–48k | $6,958 |
| $48–75k | $10,307 |
| $75–110k | $13,269 |
| $110k+ | $15,707 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,476 of these 4,349 students, totalling $7,884,905 — an average of $5,342 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Onondaga 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)