Trinity Valley
Community College
Public Community College in Athens, TX. Six-year graduation rate 27%. Median 10-year earnings $38,567.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,567, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Only 27% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates leave owing a median of $10,426 — modest by four-year standards. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.3% of students move 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 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 27% — below national average
Academics
Only 27% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential. 19% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 21:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. 5,300 undergraduates makes this a mid-sized institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,249 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $5,015 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $2,338 while those at $110k+ pay $12,640. 39% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 12% 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 · 553 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 | $2,338 |
| $30–48k | $3,182 |
| $48–75k | $5,186 |
| $75–110k | $9,397 |
| $110k+ | $12,640 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 650 of these 5,249 students, totalling $3,821,177 — an average of $5,879 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Henderson 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)