Pearl River
Community College
Public Community College in Poplarville, MS. Six-year graduation rate 37%. Median 10-year earnings $33,019.
Students who entered Pearl River Community College reach a median of $33,019 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 38% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,750 — modest by four-year standards. On economic mobility, 2.7% 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 0.30 — 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. First-year retention is 65% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 16% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 15% 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 4,725 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $7,170 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Net price varies modestly by income — $5,647 at $0–30k against $8,460 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 81% of students at an average of $7,187. 33% 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 · 822 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 | $5,647 |
| $30–48k | $5,978 |
| $48–75k | $5,363 |
| $75–110k | $6,217 |
| $110k+ | $8,460 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,573 of these 4,725 students, totalling $9,590,210 — an average of $6,097 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pearl River 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)