Salt Lake
Community College
Public Community College in Salt Lake City, UT. Six-year graduation rate 29%. Median 10-year earnings $47,867.
Students who entered Salt Lake Community College land at a median of $47,867 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Only 29% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $8,003.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.17 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented
- ! Graduation rate 29% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 29% graduate within six years. 57% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. 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. A 14% 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. Retention drops to 44% 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 17,250 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $8,425 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Income makes less difference than usual: $8,476 at $0–30k, $13,928 at $110k+. Grant aid is limited — 38% of students receive any. 12% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 1,644 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 | $8,476 |
| $30–48k | $9,048 |
| $48–75k | $10,559 |
| $75–110k | $11,589 |
| $110k+ | $13,928 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,116 of these 17,250 students, totalling $11,842,727 — an average of $5,597 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Salt Lake 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)