Great Basin College
Great Basin College is a public college in Elko, NV, with about 256 students on campus and 2,680 more studying only online. Price, graduation and earnings figures on this page count online students too.
The short version on Great Basin College
Most of Great Basin College’s students study online
About 2,680 students take classes only online, against 256 on campus. Price, graduation and earnings figures on this page count online students too, so they describe the online college as much as the campus. The students ↓
Great Basin College is very small
About 256 students attend on campus. With classes this small, a handful of students can move the graduation rate from one year to the next. The students ↓
Most students study part-time
56% of undergraduates attend part-time. The graduation rate counts only first-time, full-time students, so it covers a minority of the people studying here. The students ↓
The only college for 30 miles
No other degree-granting college with students on campus is within 30 miles of Great Basin College. Nearby ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Figures are from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard; price, graduation and earnings include online students; graduation rates count only first-time, full-time students; at a college this small, rates can swing from year to year.
The students
1,900 degree-seeking undergraduates.
By race and ethnicity
Women and men
How hard is it to get into Great Basin College?
anyone with a high school diploma can enroll
Test scores of admitted students
No SAT or ACT ranges reported. Great Basin College is likely test-optional.
The sticker price, and what families really pay
Sticker price: $12,947 a year
Before any grants · out-of-state tuition $13,883
After grants, the average family on aid pays $8,471.
Your family’s price
Average net price after grants, by family income
About $38,556 over 4 years · 26% off the sticker price
Do students finish, and does it pay off?
Debt vs. the paycheck
The typical loan payment as a share of a typical graduate’s monthly pay six years after starting
$167 a month against about $2,968 a month in pay.
Paying back loans
Federal student loans, this college
of borrowers paid down at least some of their loan within three years, more than at 37% of U.S. colleges.
Almost none defaulted within three years (payments on federal loans were paused from 2020 to 2023, so recent default rates are near zero everywhere).
Earnings by family background
Median earnings 10 years after starting, by family income at enrollment
What students study, and what it pays
Share of degrees by field
Bachelor’s programs with the most graduates
And their graduates’ median earnings four years later (one year where that’s all that’s reported).
Living in Elko
5% of Elko’s 21,019 residents are enrolled in college. What the town is like, from TownRatings’ Elko pages.
Ask around
Students, parents, alumni and the neighbors next door.
Sources: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (institution and field-of-study files) and IPEDS (Scorecard 06/10/2026 · IPEDS 2024 · fall 2023); town figures from the Census American Community Survey and NOAA climate normals. Graduation rates count first-time, full-time students; earnings and debt are for students who received federal aid. Distances are straight-line. Colleges are described, not graded (how TownRatings describes colleges). Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.