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Lower Columbia College

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

Longview, WA1,932 students
Acceptance Rate
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open admission
Median SAT
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Net Price After Aid
$9.9k
Sticker $6.2k
Graduation Rate
25%
6-year, full-time

Lower Columbia College is a public institution in Longview, WA and 1,932 students. The average net price after financial aid is $9,950 per year.

About Lower Columbia College

A public 4-year urban university in Longview, WA.

Lower Columbia College campus
Campus · Longview

Lower Columbia College is a college in Longview, WA. It enrolls roughly 1,932 students.

Far WestUrbanPublic4-yearHumanities
Acceptance Rate
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Open Admission
Total Enrollment
1,932
Small
Retention
—
First-years returning
Graduation Rate
25%
6-year, full-time

Your chances at this school

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Acceptance Rate
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Admitted Student GPA
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Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

What strengthens an application here

  1. Depth in one or two activities
    Sustained commitment, a leadership role, or a result in a few activities says more than a long list of memberships.

Your chances estimate is based on your academic profile and activities — it is a guide, not a guarantee of admission. Decisions weigh essays, recommendations, and fit factors that aren't in the data.

Admissions

What it actually takes to get into Lower Columbia College. Test scores, GPA, application requirements, and deadlines.

Cost & financial aid

Published costs can be misleading. Here's what families actually pay at Lower Columbia College after grants and scholarships.

Sticker price
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Tuition $6,224
Average net price after aid
$9,950
After grants and scholarships

Net price by family income

Average amount paid out of pocket — tuition, fees, and room & board minus all grant aid.

$0 – $30,000
$6,427
$30,001 – $48,000
$8,037
$48,001 – $75,000
$9,265
$75,001 – $110,000
$14,179
$110,001 +
$15,683

Net price represents the average cost after grants and scholarships for students receiving federal financial aid.

Pell Grant Recipients
36%
Need-based federal grant
Take Federal Loans
13%
Avg loan $6,487 / year
Avg Grant Aid
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Per receiving student / year

Academics & majors

Where students at Lower Columbia College concentrate, and how the classroom experience scales.

Student : Faculty
15:1
Class-size proxy
Primary Focus
Humanities
49% of degrees awarded
Retention
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First-years returning
A breakdown of the top majors by share of degrees awarded ships once we finish backfilling per-school program data.

Student body

Who attends Lower Columbia College. Enrollment, diversity, and where students come from.

Race & ethnicity

  • White68%
  • Asian2%
  • Hispanic17%
  • Black3%
  • Two or more races9%
  • International1%

Gender

  • Female72%
  • Male28%
International
1%
Of total enrollment
Live on Campus
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Undergraduate residential rate
Total Enrollment
1,932

Outcomes after graduation

What Lower Columbia College graduates do next — and what they earn.

Median Earnings
$40.7k
10 years after enrollment
Employed at 2 yrs
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Working or in grad school
Pursue Grad School
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Within 5 years
Graduation Rate
25%
6-year, full-time

Is it worth it?

Earnings, debt, and price side by side — context for the cost-vs-payoff question, not a ranking.

Median earnings
$40.7k
10 yrs after entry
Typical debt
$6.5k
median, borrowers only
Avg. net price
$9.9k/yr
after aid
  • These numbers reflect who enrolls, not the value the school adds. A college's earnings can look high simply because it admits wealthier, higher-scoring students — not because of what happens there.
  • Earnings vary far more by major and career path than by school. A school-wide median blends engineers and artists into one number that may match no real student.
  • Federal earnings and debt figures cover only students who received federal aid, so they leave out full-pay students and can skew the picture.
  • Net price is an average across aided students and debt is the median for borrowers only — many students borrow nothing. Your actual cost depends on your own aid package.

What this means

$41k is below the national bachelor's-graduate median at the 10-year mark, and a 25% graduation rate is below the national average.

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