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After Sandhills Community College: graduation, pay and debt

Pinehurst, North Carolina · Public · 3,824 undergrads

The typical student earns $31,656 ten years after starting.

The short answers

$31.7k
median pay 10 years after starting college.
All the federal numbers

Finishing

Finished a two-year program within three yearsCollege Scorecard
43%
Earned a degree or certificate here within eight yearsIPEDS, full-time students who started in 2015
35%
Still enrolled here after eight yearsIPEDS, full-time students who started in 2015
29%
Students in that eight-year groupIPEDS, full-time students who started in 2015
285
Transferred to another collegeCollege Scorecard
20%

Pay after college

Median pay 6 years after starting collegeCollege Scorecard
$28,363
Median pay 8 years after starting collegeCollege Scorecard
$29,738
Median pay 10 years after starting collegeCollege Scorecard
$31,656
Earning more than $25,000 six years after startingCollege Scorecard
37%

Pay is for students who got federal aid and are working, counted from the year they started college, whether or not they finished.

Debt and paying it back

Paying down their loans 5 years after leavingCollege Scorecard
63%
Paying down their loans 7 years after leavingCollege Scorecard
53%

Federal student loans only. Private loans and Parent PLUS loans aren't counted.

Where these numbers come from

Updated May 8, 2026Spot a mistake?How we get our numbers