by our College Data Analytics TeamA large number of students are not billed the advertised price of a school. Instead, they will be provided a financial aid package that will include a combination of scholarships, grants, loans, and work-study. The total price of attendance at Sandhills Community College can feel overwhelming, but bear in mind that many students receive some sort of financial aid.
Just what financing solutions does SCC provide, and just what are you going to be eligible for? Keep scrolling for answers. Scroll down to find out how much school funding will be available to you.
Eligibility for aid and scholarships is driven mostly by your household’s income and need. Read on to get a sense of the financial assistance available at Sandhills Community College.
Financial assistance, available as scholarships, loans, and work-study, is a way schools lower the price of attendance so many students can enroll. Some kinds of aid are clearly preferable to others, and outcomes differ across students.
For incoming first-year students at Sandhills Community College, 89% of first-time, full-time freshmen received some form of financial aid around 297 freshmen).
| Type of Aid | % of Freshmen Receiving | Average Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Grant or scholarship aid (all sources) | 88% | $7,146 |
| Institutional grants & scholarships | 65% | $2,297 |
| Federal Pell grants | 47% | $9,103 |
| State/local grants | 49% | $1,133 |
| Federal student loans | 0% | — |
The best aid is gift aid: grants and scholarships that carry no repayment obligation. Across the undergraduate body at SCC, some 44% of undergraduate students received gift aid averaging $7,614 (covering around 1695 undergraduates).
| Award | % of Undergrads Receiving | Average Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Grant or scholarship aid (all sources) | 44% | $7,614 |
| Federal Pell grants | 28% | $9,348 |
| Federal student loans | 0% | — |
For on-campus title-IV students, average grant aid came to $10,552.
Need-based aid means lower-income families typically pay far less than the sticker price suggests.
| Family Income | Average Net Price |
|---|---|
| $0 – $48,000 | $8,164 |
| $30,001 – $75,000 | $9,072 |
| Over $75,000 | $10,625 |
The numbers above are post-aid net prices, so they already account for grants and scholarships.
The net price strips out grant and scholarship aid from the sticker price to show roughly what families really pay.
| Cohort | Average Net Price |
|---|---|
| On-campus title-IV students | $4,157 |
| Off-campus title-IV students | $8,596 |
To get a personalized net price estimate, try SCC’s official net price calculator: www.sandhills.edu/_resources/document/net-price-23.html.
A handful of calculated indicators summarize the debt outlook at SCC.
Most undergraduate borrowing runs through the federal Stafford loan program. Below is the annual Stafford program activity at SCC:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Stafford loan recipients | 372 |
| Total Stafford loan amount | $1,940,608 |
GI Bill and DoD Tuition Assistance are the two federal aid programs targeted at military-affiliated students.
GI Bill volume
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| GI Bill recipients | 117 |
| Total GI Bill amount | $137,629 |
| Average GI Bill amount per recipient | $1,176 |
Active-duty Tuition Assistance recipients
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| DoD Tuition Assistance recipients | 19 |
| Total DoD amount | $16,720 |
| Average DoD amount per recipient | $880 |
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