Shoreline College
Public Community College in Shoreline, WA. Six-year graduation rate 29%. Median 10-year earnings $52,009.
Students who entered Shoreline College land at a median of $52,009 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is the weak point: 29% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $12,021, 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 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 29% — below national average
Academics
Only 29% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential. A 15% 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. A 13:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. With 4,460 undergraduates, the school sits in the middle of the size distribution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,109 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $10,535 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $7,390 at the $0–30k band to $16,328 at $110k+. Grant aid is limited — 37% of students receive any. Only 6% 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 · 356 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 | $7,390 |
| $30–48k | $7,997 |
| $48–75k | $10,321 |
| $75–110k | $12,323 |
| $110k+ | $16,328 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 190 of these 3,109 students, totalling $1,231,218 — an average of $6,480 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (King County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026