Del Mar College
About
Del Mar College (DMC) is a public community college in Corpus Christi, Texas. Founded in 1935, DMC encompasses three primary campuses and one campus annex.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 89.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 107 Title IV programs, 12 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 95 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing12 · 11.2%
- No Data95 · 88.8%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 11
Action history · 38
- Nov 2025Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Oct 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Sep 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jan 2025Removal of Monitoring StatusAmerican Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation · Dental Assisting (DA)
- Jan 2025Removal of Monitoring StatusAmerican Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation · Dental Hygiene (DH)
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 4,352 students received $18.6M in Pell grants, alongside $2.5M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 768 borrowers who entered repayment, 41 (5.3%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Del Mar College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus4
- Public property3
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Del Mar College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Del Mar College selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectDel Mar College | 11% | — | 10,256 | $4,250 | Community College |
Texas State Technical College | — | — | 12,077 | $10,280 | Community College |
Lee College | — | — | 8,323 | $7,519 | Community College |
Wharton County Junior College | — | — | 5,504 | $5,021 | Community College |
Lamar Institute of Technology | — | — | 5,680 | $8,167 | Community College |
Lamar State College-Port Arthur | — | — | 4,680 | $4,887 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 11% | — | 7,002 | $6,270 |
Del Mar College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The Institutional Research and Analytics (IRA) Department works collaboratively with all Del Mar College departments, offices and programs to ensure data-driven decision making and continuous quality improvement by facilitating and coordinating systematic, integrated, and research-based reporting.
Visit IR office page- Sushil PallemoniAssociate Vice President of Institutional Research and Analytics
- Jane HaasAssociate Director
- Carolyn SorrelsExecutive Assistant
- Shane StewartResearch Associate III
- Julio BarrazaResearch Associate II
- Bianca LopezResearch Analyst
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