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Community college · Public

Olympic College

Bremerton, WA1,385 online only

Olympic College is a public community college in Bremerton, WA, with about 4,028 students on campus and 1,385 more studying only online.

Students on campus
4,028
plus 1,385 studying only online
Admission rate
Open
open enrollment
Net price a year
$7,172
tuition and fees $4,197; the net price adds housing and food
Graduation rate
31%
Earnings, 10 yrs later
$43,169
higher than at 57% of U.S. colleges
Getting in

How hard is it to get into Olympic College?

Open

anyone with a high school diploma can enroll

Test scores of admitted students

No SAT or ACT ranges reported. Olympic College is likely test-optional.

What it costs

The sticker price, and what families really pay

Sticker price: $15,585 a year

Before any grants · out-of-state tuition $9,740

Tuition & fees (in state) $4,197Room & board $10,500Books & supplies $768

After grants, the average family on aid pays $7,172.

Tuition and fees are $4,197 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

$8,923

About $17,846 over 2 years · 43% off the sticker price

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

Do students finish, and does it pay off?

Graduate
31%
within 1½ times the normal program length
Come back for year two
—
full-time first-year students
Earnings, 10 years later
$43,169
median, students on federal aid
Typical debt
$12,000
about $127 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

4.4%
0%10%: a common comfort line25%

$127 a month against about $2,876 a month in pay.

Paying back loans

Federal student loans, this college

38%

of borrowers paid down at least some of their loan within three years, more than at 35% 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
$39k
Middle income$30–75k
$53k
Higher incomeover $75k
$69k
Majors

What students study, and what it pays

Share of degrees by field

Liberal arts 31%Engineering tech 28%Health professions 15%Education 8%Business 7%Precision production 5%Everything else 6%

Bachelor’s programs with the most graduates

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

Business Administration, Management and Operations20 graduates a year
$60k4 yrs out
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing15 graduates a year
$110k4 yrs out
Computer and Information Sciences, General13 graduates a year
—not reported
Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians12 graduates a year
—not reported
Who goes there

The students

3,826 degree-seeking undergraduates.

By race and ethnicity

White 45%Hispanic 15%Black 4%Asian 6%Two or more 12%International 1%

Women and men

Women 60%Men 40%
17 : 1
students per teacher
19%
get Pell grants (lower income)
6%
take federal loans
41%
undergrads 25 or older
43%
study part time
The town around it

Living in Bremerton

6% of Bremerton’s 45,482 residents are enrolled in college. What the town is like, from TownRatings’ Bremerton pages.

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Nearby

Other colleges within 30 miles

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

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Students, parents, alumni and the neighbors next door.

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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.