Southern Crescent
Technical College
Public Community College in Griffin, GA. Six-year graduation rate 58%. Median 10-year earnings $36,104.
Ten-year median earnings of $36,104 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. The six-year graduation rate is 58%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $9,500.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 58% finish inside six years. Retention of 63% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention drops to 48% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. A 21:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 4,035 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,148 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $4,265 at the $0–30k band to $14,117 at $110k+. 82% of students receive grant aid, averaging $8,800 — common but not automatic. Only 15% 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 · 371 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 | $4,265 |
| $30–48k | $5,034 |
| $48–75k | $8,589 |
| $75–110k | $9,872 |
| $110k+ | $14,117 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 601 of these 4,035 students, totalling $4,530,320 — an average of $7,538 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Spalding 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)