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Mitchell Community College

Statesville, North Carolina · Fringe town

19%
Transfer rate: $6,481
Avg net price: 28%
Grad / completion: $33,298
Median earnings

Mitchell Community College is a public associate-granting institution in Statesville, North Carolina (fringe town setting), enrolling 1,948 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

PublicSmall · 1,948 undergradsFringe townCold winters

About Statesville, North Carolina

Statesville is a city in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. In 1753, Scots-Irish Presbyterians and German Lutherans, who had originally settled in Pennsylvania, began arriving in what would become Statesville in 1789 to plant crops in the fertile soil where game and water were also plentiful. The Governor Zebulon Vance House and Museum is operated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy; Vance lived in the house at the end of the U.S. Civil War. Other museums include Iredell Museums, Heritage Museum, and The Children's Museum. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Fringe town
Highest degree offered: Associate
Nearest big city: 39 miles to Charlotte, NC
To the ocean: 184 miles
Nearest airport: 29 miles to Concord-Padgett (USA)

How Mitchell Community College compares

Graduation rate28%

Higher than 10% · #81 of 90 in North Carolina

First-year retention61%

Higher than 25%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$33,298

Higher than 44% · #46 of 84 in North Carolina

Average net price$6,481

Cheaper than 84% · #34 cheapest of 90 in North Carolina

Student–faculty ratio15 : 1

Lower than 56%

Undergraduate enrollment1,948

Larger than 81%

Percentiles compare Mitchell Community College 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

Women1,23263%
Men71637%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White60%
Black16%
Hispanic16%
Asian2.6%
Other or multiracial5.2%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 1,948
Student–faculty ratio: 15 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 19%
First-generation students: 49%
Students over 25: 14%
Median family income: $20,011
Avg faculty salary (academic year): $56,862
Endowment: $4,072,087

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

Where students come from

Home state of the 343 first-year students who entered in fall 2023.

From North Carolina100%

Most first-years stay in state — Mitchell Community College draws overwhelmingly from North Carolina.

Out-of-state students usually pay a higher tuition rate at public schools — check the cost card above for your bracket. Source: IPEDS residence & migration, fall 2023 entering class.

Cost

In-state tuition: $2,641
Out-of-state tuition: $8,785
Room & board: —
Books & supplies: $3,190
Total cost of attendance: $16,661
Average net price: $6,481

Outcomes

Graduated: 28%
First-year retention: 61%
Transferred to another college: 19%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $29,663
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $33,298
Median debt at graduation: —
Students with federal loans: 0%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

28%

First-generation

17%

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: Free

Campus safety

Safety grade: A
Reported offenses per 1,000 students: 0.0 / year
Violent offenses (2022–2024): 0
Property offenses (2022–2024): 0

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

$5,287

$30–48k

$5,495

$48–75k

$8,805

$75–110k

$10,056

$110k+

—

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?

Grant aid from the school's own funds — the discount off sticker, on top of any federal or state help.

18%

of first-years get a grant from the school

$778

average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 18% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $778. Most of what lowers the price here is federal or state money, not the school's own funds.

Blends need-based and merit aid — IPEDS doesn't split the two, so a high number can mean generous merit scholarships, deep need-based aid, or both. Figures cover 167 full-time first-year undergraduates, 2022–23. Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years): $33,298
Typical debt at graduation: —
Debt vs. one year's pay: —
Out-earn a HS grad: 35%

Weigh it value

The payoff is less clear-cut here — weigh the debt against the earnings and your intended field before borrowing heavily.

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

$29,868

Men

$41,299

Men out-earn women by $11,431 (38%) 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: 87°F
Winter low: 26°F
Annual rain: 46.6″
Annual snow: 4.9″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Statesville 2 Nne, NC US station (2 mi from campus).

What Mitchell Community College graduates study — and earn

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesAssoc.

293 grads$28k 1 yr$35k 5 yr$6k debt

293$27,667$35,044$6,313 Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming ServicesCert.

82 grads— 1 yr$21k 5 yr— debt

82—$20,926—Design and Applied ArtsCert.

67 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

67———Computer and Information Sciences, GeneralCert.

50 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

50———Business Administration, Management and OperationsCert.

46 grads$27k 1 yr$40k 5 yr— debt

46$26,976$40,052—Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssoc.

43 grads$63k 1 yr$63k 5 yr— debt

43$62,584$63,398—Accounting and Related ServicesCert.

35 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

35———Criminal Justice and CorrectionsCert.

32 grads$47k 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

32$47,001——Mental and Social Health Services and Allied ProfessionsCert.

18 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

18———Agricultural Business and ManagementCert.

16 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

16———Culinary Arts and Related ServicesCert.

15 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

15———Precision Metal WorkingCert.

14 grads— 1 yr— 5 yr— debt

14———

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.