Tennessee College
of Applied Technology-Hohenwald
Public Community College in Hohenwald, TN. Six-year graduation rate 65%. Median 10-year earnings $36,106.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $36,106, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 65%, meaning about one in three students who start do not finish.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
Academics
Completion is middling: 65% finish inside six years. Retention of 79% 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. The student-faculty ratio is 20:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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 565 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $13,182 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($13,226 versus $14,665), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is widespread — 93% of students receive it, averaging $4,596.
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 · 215 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 | $13,226 |
| $30–48k | $9,026 |
| $48–75k | $11,108 |
| $75–110k | $15,031 |
| $110k+ | $14,665 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lewis County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026