Suffolk County
Community College
Public Community College in Selden, NY. Six-year graduation rate 29%. Median 10-year earnings $49,907.
Ten years after entry, the median Suffolk County Community College student earns $49,907 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 29% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Median debt at graduation is $8,250, 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 0.17 — 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. Retention of 62% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. A 14% 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 14,180 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $4,965 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $2,393 while those at $110k+ pay $11,764. Only 46% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Only 10% 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 · 2,971 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 | $2,393 |
| $30–48k | $3,623 |
| $48–75k | $6,960 |
| $75–110k | $9,786 |
| $110k+ | $11,764 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,443 of these 14,180 students, totalling $6,245,218 — an average of $4,328 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Suffolk 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)