Private for-profit · Community college

Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville

Jacksonville, North Carolina · Small city

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Transfer rate: $23,535
Avg net price: 75%
Grad / completion: $31,102
Median earnings

Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Jacksonville, North Carolina (small city setting), enrolling 195 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 195 undergradsSmall cityCold wintersNear the coast

About Jacksonville, North Carolina

Jacksonville is the county seat of and the most populous community in Onslow County, North Carolina, which is coterminous with the Jacksonville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The New River became a major production center for naval stores like turpentine. The downtown waterfront park is built on the original site of Wantland's Ferry. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Small city
Highest degree offered: Associate
Nearest big city: 49 miles to Wilmington, NC
To the ocean: 3 miles
Nearest airport: 10 miles to Albert J Ellis (OAJ)

How Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville compares

Graduation rate75%

Higher than 70% · #11 of 90 in North Carolina

First-year retention78%

Higher than 60%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$31,102

Higher than 35% · #60 of 84 in North Carolina

Average net price$23,535

Cheaper than 22% · #81 cheapest of 90 in North Carolina

Median debt at graduation$15,917

Lower than 12%

Student–faculty ratio15 : 1

Lower than 56%

Undergraduate enrollment195

Larger than 44%

Percentiles compare Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in North Carolina.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women10051%
Men9549%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White45%
Black37%
Hispanic9.7%
Asian1.5%
Other or multiracial6.2%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 195
Student–faculty ratio: 15 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 56%
First-generation students: 59%
Students over 25: 67%
Median family income: $16,310
Avg faculty salary (academic year): $41,130

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition: —
Room & board: —
Total cost of attendance: —
Average net price: $23,535

Outcomes

Graduated: 75%
First-year retention: 78%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $26,349
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $31,102
Median debt at graduation: $15,917
Students with federal loans: 51%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 33%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

75%

Low-income (Pell)

59%

First-generation

46%

When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $40

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k

$23,296

$30–48k

$24,663

$48–75k

$22,256

$75–110k

$28,436

$110k+

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College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville funds essentially no grants of its own — almost all aid here comes from federal (Pell), state, or outside sources rather than the school's own discount. Its sticker price is what it is.

Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid, 2022–23 full-time first-year undergraduates.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years): $31,102
Typical debt at graduation: $15,917
Debt vs. one year's pay: 51%
Out-earn a HS grad: 47%

Typical debt would take roughly 5.1 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women

$28,590

Men

$36,975

Men out-earn women by $8,385 (29%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high: 90°F
Winter low: 32°F
Annual rain: 58.9″
Annual snow: 0.6″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Jacksonville Eoc, NC US station (1.8 mi from campus).

What Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville graduates study — and earn

Ground TransportationCert.

114 grads$47k 1 yr$29k 5 yr$8k debt

114$46,909$29,387$7,875 Allied Health and Medical Assisting ServicesCert.

32 grads$23k 1 yr$25k 5 yr$17k debt

32$22,869$25,324$16,500 Business Administration, Management and OperationsAssoc.

13 grads$24k 1 yr$29k 5 yr$31k debt

13$23,907$28,532$30,649 Health and Medical Administrative ServicesCert.

9 grads$23k 1 yr$27k 5 yr$24k debt

9$22,506$27,239$23,859

Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.