Public · Community college
Stone Child College
Box Elder, Montana · Remote rural
- 5%
- Transfer rate
- $4,424
- Avg net price
- 34%
- Grad / completion
- $24,555
- Median earnings
Stone Child College is a public associate-granting institution in Box Elder, Montana (remote rural setting), enrolling 193 undergraduates. It is a Tribal college. Admission is open to all applicants.
About Box Elder, Montana
Box Elder is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hill County in the U.S. state of Montana. Before 2010 the Box Elder CDP was split into the current much-smaller Box Elder CDP, while most of the former CDP area went into the new Rocky Boy West CDP. Box Elder is the headquarters of the Chippewa-Cree tribe. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Remote rural
- Highest degree offered
- Bachelor's
- Nearest big city
- 185 miles to Billings, MT
- To the ocean
- 568 miles
- Nearest airport
- 18 miles to Havre City County (HVR)
How Stone Child College compares
Higher than 19% · #9 of 17 in Montana
Higher than 17% · #10 of 15 in Montana
Cheaper than 93% · #2 cheapest of 17 in Montana
Lower than 78%
Larger than 44%
Percentiles compare Stone Child 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 Montana.
Student body
Undergraduates by gender
- Women9951%
- Men9449%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White3.6%
- Other or multiracial96%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 193
- Student–faculty ratio
- 11 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 49%
- First-generation students
- 27%
- Students over 25
- 60%
- Median family income
- $5,682
- Avg faculty salary (academic year)
- $55,818
- Endowment
- $13,631,015
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Cost
- In-state tuition
- $3,610
- Room & board
- —
- Books & supplies
- $1,300
- Total cost of attendance
- $15,570
- Average net price
- $4,424
Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.
Outcomes
- Graduated (within 6 years)
- 34%
- Graduated on time (4 years)
- 50%
- First-year retention
- —
- Transferred to another college
- 5%
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $11,860
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $24,555
- Median debt at graduation
- —
- Students with federal loans
- 0%
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $10
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.
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.
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.
Four-year (or more) true cost
Net price for your family's income, projected across the time it actually takes students here to graduate.
$8,579/year × about 4.0 years — most students here don't finish in exactly four, and each extra term adds cost. A planning estimate from net-price and graduation-timing data, not a bill.
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.
Modest institutional aid: 47% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $4,338. 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 30 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)
- $24,555
- Typical debt at graduation
- —
- Debt vs. one year's pay
- —
- Out-earn a HS grad
- 20%
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 out-earn men by $270 (1%) 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
- 86°F
- Winter low
- 10°F
- Annual rain
- 13.3″
- Annual snow
- 34.6″
Average temperature
HighLowAverage precipitation (inches)
NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Big Sandy, MT US station (13.8 mi from campus).
What Stone Child College graduates study — and earn
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.