Pueblo Community College
Public Community College in Pueblo, CO. Six-year graduation rate 31%. Median 10-year earnings $37,434.
Students who entered Pueblo Community College reach a median of $37,434 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 31% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $10,000, 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 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 31% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 31% graduate within six years. Just 0% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. A 17% 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. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. As a public four-year university, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,293 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $13,391 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $9,941 while those at $110k+ pay $19,251. Grant aid reaches 78% of students at an average of $7,761. About 34% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 236 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 | $9,941 |
| $30–48k | $12,345 |
| $48–75k | $11,892 |
| $75–110k | $17,469 |
| $110k+ | $19,251 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,115 of these 3,293 students, totalling $4,965,969 — an average of $4,454 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pueblo 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)