Snead State
Community College
Public Community College in Boaz, AL. Six-year graduation rate 49%. Median 10-year earnings $35,735.
Students who entered Snead State Community College reach a median of $35,735 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 49%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $9,000, 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 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 49% finish inside six years. Retention of 68% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. Transfer-out runs to 14% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 35% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,494 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $3,413 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($2,256 versus $9,878), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 95% of students get grant aid averaging $5,173, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 19% 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 · 488 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 | $2,256 |
| $30–48k | $3,266 |
| $48–75k | $4,433 |
| $75–110k | $7,011 |
| $110k+ | $9,878 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 278 of these 1,494 students, totalling $1,669,355 — an average of $6,005 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Marshall 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)