St Petersburg College
Public Community College in St. Petersburg, FL. Six-year graduation rate 38%. Median 10-year earnings $42,557.
Students who entered St Petersburg College land at a median of $42,557 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Only 38% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Median debt at graduation is $16,868, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
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 the problem here: 38% graduate within six years. 18% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 25:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. With 23,350 undergraduates, this is a large institution — expect the administrative scale and the range of offerings that come with it.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 18,759 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $2,333 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $-716 while those at $110k+ pay $11,943. About 55% get grants averaging $8,503, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Only 20% 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 · 1,768 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 | $-716 |
| $30–48k | $677 |
| $48–75k | $4,005 |
| $75–110k | $8,923 |
| $110k+ | $11,943 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 3,689 of these 18,759 students, totalling $25,902,267 — an average of $7,021 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pinellas 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)