El Paso Community College

Overview

Rankings

• #4 Most Affordable Colleges in Texas
• #17 Most Affordable Hispanic-Serving Institutions
• #26 Most Affordable Online Public Universities
• #27 Best Criminal Justice Colleges in Texas
• #32 Best Education Colleges in Texas
• #40 Most Affordable Online Colleges
• #46 Best Computer Science Colleges in Texas
• #46 Best Data Science Colleges in Texas

Academics & Admissions

Is It Hard to Get Into El Paso Community College? Acceptance Rate & Requirements

Based in El Paso, Texas, El Paso Community College enrolls students across a range of programs. The graduation rate is roughly 23%.

Retention Rate

63%

Full-Time Faculty

49%

Faculty Salary (mo)

$6,687

Student–Faculty Ratio

21:1

Diversity Index

0.35

First-Gen Students

49%

Cost & Financial Aid

How Much Does It Cost to Attend El Paso Community College? Tuition, Net Price & Aid

Published tuition at El Paso Community College is $6,630, but few families pay that. The number to watch is net price, what students actually pay each year after federal grants and institutional scholarships. Here it averages about $3,206. Students from families earning under $30,000 typically pay closer to $2,509 after need-based grants. The median graduate leaves with about $6,566 in federal student loans.

In-State Tuition

$4,080

Out-of-State

$6,630

Avg Net Price

$3,206

Median Debt

$6,566

Pell Grant Rate

37%

Federal Loan Rate

2%

Students Like You

Tell us a little about yourself to see what students like you have typically experienced at El Paso Community College — the net price for your income, your admission odds, and the outcomes that follow. These are patterns from federal data, not predictions.

Graduate Outcomes

Is El Paso Community College Worth It? Graduate Earnings & ROI

Ten years out, alumni of El Paso Community College report median earnings of $35,212, a figure worth comparing against the cost of attendance before enrolling.

6 Years After Entry

$28,765

8 Years

$31,963

10 Years

$35,212

Debt-to-Earnings

0.19x

Earning > $25K

41%

Social Mobility

Data: Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card · 30M+ anonymized tax records

Does El Paso Community College Drive Upward Mobility? Economic Mobility & Low-Income Outcomes

El Paso Community College is a genuine engine of upward mobility. Its mobility rate, the share of students who start in the bottom income quintile and climb to the top, is 4.77%, among the highest in the country. Access is a real strength here. Roughly 40.9% of students come from families in the bottom income quintile, a high share that gives low-income students a real foothold. Among bottom-quintile students who attend, roughly 11.7% go on to reach the top of the income ladder. The median family income of students sits near $29,200, a snapshot of the campus's socioeconomic mix.

Mobility Rate

4.77%

Bottom 20% → Top 20%

Success Rate

11.7%

If bottom 20% get in

From Bottom 20%

40.9%

Share of students

Parent Median Income

$39,673

today's $ (2015 cohort data)

Social Capital

Data: Opportunity Insights Social Capital Atlas

How Connected Is El Paso Community College? Social Capital & Cross-Class Networks

Social capital, the web of cross-class friendships that researchers link to long-run upward mobility, runs below average at El Paso Community College. Its economic connectedness score is 0.60, where about 1.0 is the national norm. Its friending bias is low (0.03), a sign that students from different economic backgrounds actually mix rather than self-segregate. Around 2% of students take part in civic and volunteering activity.

Economic Connectedness

0.60

Cross-class friendships

Friending Bias

0.03

Lower = more inclusive

Volunteering Rate

1.8%

Support Ratio

0.93

Community support

Institutional Finances

Data: NCES IPEDS

Endowment

$788,404

Federal Grants

$4,032,695

Investment Income

$1,283,798

Top Programs

The fields El Paso Community College awards the most degrees in, by share of completions. Where federal field-of-study data exists, we show what graduates in that major earned early in their careers. Each links to its degree guide — or see what someone with your income, scores, and major would pay and earn here in the Students Like You simulator.

• Humanities 38% $28,558 early-career
• Health Professions 13% $70,404 early-career
• Business & Marketing 8% $32,002 early-career
• Criminal Justice 6% $44,638 early-career
• Mechanic & Repair Tech 5% $30,624 early-career
• Psychology 4% $20,128 early-career
• Computer Science & IT 4% $29,935 early-career
• Education 3% $19,663 early-career

Early-career median earnings by major (typically 1–2 years after completion, bachelor's level where available), in today's dollars (CPI-adjusted). Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard field of study. Distinct from the school-wide 10-year median; suppressed for small programs.