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Community college · Public

Mt Hood Community College

Gresham, OR919 online only

Mt Hood Community College is a public community college in Gresham, OR, with about 5,352 students on campus.

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Students on campus
5,352
plus 919 studying only online
Admission rate
Open
open enrollment
Net price a year
$7,821
tuition and fees $5,247; the net price adds housing and food
Graduation rate
24%
Earnings, 10 yrs later
$41,125
higher than at 51% of U.S. colleges
Getting in

How hard is it to get into Mt Hood Community College?

Open

anyone with a high school diploma can enroll

Test scores of admitted students

No SAT or ACT ranges reported. Mt Hood Community College is likely test-optional.

What it costs

The sticker price, and what families really pay

Sticker price: $17,462 a year

Before any grants · out-of-state tuition $9,819

Tuition & fees (in state) $5,247Books & supplies $1,600Other costs $10,615

After grants, the average family on aid pays $7,821.

Tuition and fees are $5,247 a year. The net price also counts housing, food and other costs at full price, so a student living at home pays less than it shows.

Your family’s price

Average net price after grants, by family income

$8,016

About $16,032 over 2 years · 54% off the sticker price

Under $30k$30–48k$48–75k$75–110kOver $110k
Outcomes

Do students finish, and does it pay off?

Graduate
24%
within 1½ times the normal program length
Come back for year two
—
full-time first-year students
Earnings, 10 years later
$41,125
median, students on federal aid
Typical debt
$13,667
about $145 a month over 10 years

Debt vs. the paycheck

The typical loan payment as a share of a typical graduate’s monthly pay six years after starting

4.8%
0%10%: a common comfort line25%

$145 a month against about $3,021 a month in pay.

Paying back loans

Federal student loans, this college

33%

of borrowers paid down at least some of their loan within three years, more than at 25% 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

Lower incomeunder $30k
$38k
Middle income$30–75k
$50k
Higher incomeover $75k
$51k
Majors

What students study, and what it pays

Share of degrees by field

Liberal arts 40%Health professions 19%Business 11%Construction trades 8%Visual & performing arts 4%Computer science 4%Everything else 14%

Associate degree programs with the most graduates

And their graduates’ median earnings four years later (one year where that’s all that’s reported).

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities758 graduates a year · typical debt $7,773
$46k4 yrs out
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing56 graduates a year · typical debt $17,353
$98k4 yrs out
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions34 graduates a year · typical debt $13,036
$69k4 yrs out
Construction Trades, General29 graduates a year
—not reported
Design and Applied Arts24 graduates a year
—not reported
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services22 graduates a year · typical debt $16,625
$50k4 yrs out
Business Administration, Management and Operations19 graduates a year · typical debt $8,647
$50k4 yrs out
Funeral Service and Mortuary Science18 graduates a year
—not reported
Who goes there

The students

3,856 degree-seeking undergraduates.

By race and ethnicity

White 53%Hispanic 20%Black 5%Asian 7%Two or more 8%International 2%

Women and men

Women 59%Men 41%
20 : 1
students per teacher
24%
get Pell grants (lower income)
13%
take federal loans
43%
undergrads 25 or older
49%
study part time
The town around it

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5% of Gresham’s 111,513 residents are enrolled in college. What the town is like, from TownRatings’ Gresham pages.

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Nearby

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Straight-line distances from Mt Hood Community College; colleges with 100 or more students on campus.

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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.