Skyline College
Public Community College in San Bruno, CA. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $55,702.
Students who entered Skyline College land at a median of $55,702 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 44%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish.
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
Academics
Completion is middling: 44% finish inside six years. At 29:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. The undergraduate population is 9,428 — big enough for a real range of programs, small enough to navigate.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 7,132 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $6,639 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $842 at $0–30k, $5,974 at $110k+. About 67% get grants averaging $2,402, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price.
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 · 533 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 | $842 |
| $30–48k | $145 |
| $48–75k | $3,984 |
| $75–110k | $6,747 |
| $110k+ | $5,974 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 35 of these 7,132 students, totalling $264,082 — an average of $7,545 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Mateo 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)