Ranger College
Public Community College in Ranger, TX. Six-year graduation rate 19%. Median 10-year earnings $35,552.
Ten-year median earnings of $35,552 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Only 19% finish within six years, so roughly four in five students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — modest by four-year standards. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.9% of students move 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 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 19% — below national average
Academics
Only 19% finish within six years, so roughly four in five students leave without the credential. Just 46% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 29% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The part-time picture is harder: 34% return, against 46% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 935 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $6,209 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($5,459 versus $9,535), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 67% of students at an average of $4,731. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 7% 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 · 328 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 | $5,459 |
| $30–48k | $5,645 |
| $48–75k | $7,622 |
| $75–110k | $9,535 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 70 of these 935 students, totalling $352,824 — an average of $5,040 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Eastland 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)