Saline County
Career Center
Public College in Marshall, MO. Median 10-year earnings $37,200.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $37,200, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $14,027 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 50%, the acceptance rate makes Saline County Career Center a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. The applicant pool is small at 6, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. A 100% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a public short-program institution, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. The undergraduate body is just 23, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 23 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $20,385 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $18,489 at $0–30k, $19,989 at $48–75k. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $5,490, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 87% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 7 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 | $18,489 |
| $30–48k | $21,059 |
| $48–75k | $19,989 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 20 of these 23 students, totalling $133,612 — an average of $6,681 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Saline 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)