Vernon College
Public Community College in Vernon, TX. Six-year graduation rate 21%. Median 10-year earnings $40,464.
Students who entered Vernon College reach a median of $40,464 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 21% graduate within six years. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $11,000. It also moves people — 2.2% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution 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 21% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 21% graduate within six years. Just 41% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a public community college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,656 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,894 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Income makes less difference than usual: $4,244 at $0–30k, $11,712 at $110k+. Most students get help: 89% receive grants worth $6,287 on average. About 39% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 237 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 | $4,244 |
| $30–48k | $4,501 |
| $48–75k | $7,337 |
| $75–110k | $10,738 |
| $110k+ | $11,712 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 639 of these 1,656 students, totalling $3,693,480 — an average of $5,780 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Wilbarger 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)