Yavapai College
Public Community College in Prescott, AZ. Six-year graduation rate 34%. Median 10-year earnings $39,890.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $39,890, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Only 34% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,000 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 34% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 34% graduate within six years. A 20% 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. At 19:1, 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. With 7,200 undergraduates, the school sits in the middle of the size distribution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,717 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $8,929 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 ($7,882 versus $12,493), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Only 48% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 8% of students.
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 · 467 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 | $7,882 |
| $30–48k | $7,497 |
| $48–75k | $10,588 |
| $75–110k | $12,162 |
| $110k+ | $12,493 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 311 of these 3,717 students, totalling $2,017,586 — an average of $6,487 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Yavapai 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)