Pitt Community College
Public Community College in Winterville, NC. Six-year graduation rate 35%. Median 10-year earnings $37,259.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $37,259, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Only 35% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates leave owing a median of $11,977 — 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 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 35% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. 65% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. 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. Transfer-out runs to 17% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,175 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $8,305 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $6,633 at $0–30k versus $15,029 at $110k+. 69% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,038 — common but not automatic. Only 15% 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 · 546 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 | $6,633 |
| $30–48k | $6,796 |
| $48–75k | $8,364 |
| $75–110k | $11,556 |
| $110k+ | $15,029 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 799 of these 5,175 students, totalling $5,560,360 — an average of $6,959 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pitt 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)