SUNY Westchester
Community College
Public Community College in Valhalla, NY. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $46,822.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $46,822 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Completion is the weak point: 25% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $10,400, a light load against those earnings. On economic mobility, 2.5% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.22 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 25% graduate within six years. Retention of 65% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. Transfer-out runs to 15% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The part-time picture is harder: 47% return, against 65% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 7,791 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $9,156 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $7,965 at $0–30k, $14,403 at $110k+. Grant aid is limited — 49% of students receive any. 11% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 1,609 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 | $7,965 |
| $30–48k | $8,398 |
| $48–75k | $10,505 |
| $75–110k | $12,782 |
| $110k+ | $14,403 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 880 of these 7,791 students, totalling $3,618,363 — an average of $4,112 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Westchester 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)