Vance-Granville Community College
Public Community College in Henderson, NC. Six-year graduation rate 53%. Median 10-year earnings $34,304.
Students who entered Vance-Granville Community College reach a median of $34,304 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 53%, meaning about one in two 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 53% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 76% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. A 13% 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. The part-time picture is harder: 57% return, against 76% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,612 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $4,810 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The income table below is the number that matters — $1,701 at $0–30k versus $11,371 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $7,881.
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 · 156 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 | $1,701 |
| $30–48k | $2,722 |
| $48–75k | $5,636 |
| $75–110k | $8,373 |
| $110k+ | $11,371 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Vance 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)