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Public Community College

Washington State
College of Ohio

Public Community College in Marietta, OH. Six-year graduation rate 32%. Median 10-year earnings $37,988.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Washington State College of Ohio · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$37,988
Median debt at grad
$11,000
Mobility score
1.4
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
32.4%
Federal loan default
0%

Students who entered Washington State College of Ohio reach a median of $37,988 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Completion is the weak point: 32% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $11,000, a light load against those earnings.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags
  • ! Graduation rate 32% — below national average

Academics

Full-time retention
Transfer-out rate
15%
Student:faculty
14:1

Completion is the problem here: 32% graduate within six years. 15% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. The undergraduate body is just 1,637, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$8,601
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
53%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
32%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,087 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Students pay an average of $8,601 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price varies modestly by income — $5,594 at $0–30k against $12,847 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 53% of students at an average of $5,645. 32% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.

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.

% receiving grants
74%
Average grant
$5,258

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 109 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 $5,594
$30–48k $7,025
$48–75k $7,078
$75–110k $10,741
$110k+ $12,847

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 345 of these 1,087 students, totalling $2,022,448 — an average of $5,862 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Washington County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$756/mo
1 bedroom
$760/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$973/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
52
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

Compare Washington State College of Ohio with peer institutions

How we evaluate Washington State College of Ohio

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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