New EnglandSuburbanPublic4-yearHealth

Mount Wachusett Community College

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

Gardner, MA2,679 students
Acceptance Rate
99%
open admission
Median SAT
—
Net Price After Aid
$7.9k
Sticker $6.9k
Graduation Rate
30%
6-year, full-time

Mount Wachusett Community College is a public institution in Gardner, MA with an acceptance rate of 99% and 2,679 students. The average net price after financial aid is $7,889 per year.

About Mount Wachusett Community College

A public 4-year suburban university in Gardner, MA.

Mount Wachusett Community College campus
Campus · Gardner

Mount Wachusett Community College is a college in Gardner, MA. It enrolls roughly 2,679 students. The most recent acceptance rate is 99%.

New EnglandSuburbanPublic4-yearHealth
Acceptance Rate
99%
Open Admission
Total Enrollment
2,679
Medium
Retention
53%
First-years returning
Graduation Rate
30%
6-year, full-time

Your chances at this school

What admitted students look like here. Sign in to see how your own profile compares.

Acceptance Rate
99%
99 of every 100 applicants admitted
Your Chances
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Admitted Student GPA
2.86
Average across admitted students

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

What strengthens an application here

  1. A GPA near 2.86 or higher
    This is the average across admitted students.
  2. 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 Mount Wachusett Community College. Test scores, GPA, application requirements, and deadlines.

Admitted student profile

Range shown is the middle 50%.

SAT
composite, 1600 scale
—
ACT
composite, 36 scale
—
GPA
weighted, 4.5 max
2.443.35
2.86
average

This school doesn't require test scores, so these ranges reflect only students who chose to submit — applicants who submit tend to have higher scores. The real admitted range likely runs lower. Don't rule yourself out on scores alone.

Application requirements

  • Test-optional

Cost & financial aid

Published costs can be misleading. Here's what families actually pay at Mount Wachusett Community College after grants and scholarships.

Sticker price
—
Tuition $6,900
Average net price after aid
$7,889
67% of students receive financial aid

Net price by family income

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

$0 – $30,000
$5,834
$30,001 – $48,000
$6,156
$48,001 – $75,000
$7,275
$75,001 – $110,000
$11,509
$110,001 +
$13,921

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

Pell Grant Recipients
44%
Need-based federal grant
Take Federal Loans
17%
Avg loan $5,500 / year
Avg Grant Aid
—
Per receiving student / year

Academics & majors

Where students at Mount Wachusett Community College concentrate, and how the classroom experience scales.

Student : Faculty
12:1
Class-size proxy
Primary Focus
Health
35% of degrees awarded
Retention
53%
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 Mount Wachusett Community College. Enrollment, diversity, and where students come from.

Race & ethnicity

  • White44%
  • Asian1%
  • Hispanic13%
  • Black7%
  • Two or more races3%
  • International33%

Gender

  • Female67%
  • Male33%
International
48%
Of total enrollment
Live on Campus
—
Undergraduate residential rate
Total Enrollment
2,679

Outcomes after graduation

What Mount Wachusett Community College graduates do next — and what they earn.

Median Earnings
$41.1k
10 years after enrollment
Employed at 2 yrs
—
Working or in grad school
Pursue Grad School
—
Within 5 years
Graduation Rate
30%
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
$41.1k
10 yrs after entry
Typical debt
$5.5k
median, borrowers only
Avg. net price
$7.9k/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 30% graduation rate is below the national average.

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