About
North Country Community College is a public community college in Saranac Lake, New York. It is part of the State University of New York system. Founded in 1967, the college's main campus is located in Saranac Lake, New York, and it has additional locations in Malone and Ticonderoga. It is sponsored by Franklin and Essex counties. In fall 2025, the college enrolled 824 students in associate degree programs, 92 students in certificate programs, and 898 students not enrolled in a specific program.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 17.0-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 44 Title IV programs, 7 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 36 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing7 · 15.9%
- No Data36 · 81.8%
- Failing1 · 2.3%
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.
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Programmatic accreditations · 3
Action history · 3
- Mar 2022Renewal of AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Nov 2018Renewal of AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Nov 2017Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
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, 661 students received $2.9M in Pell grants, alongside $1.8M 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 362 borrowers who entered repayment, 24 (6.6%) 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 NCCC
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
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 2
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
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.
NCCC vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions NCCC 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectNorth Country Community College | 29% | — | 1,658 | $11,690 | Community College |
Arkansas State University-Mountain Home | — | — | 1,315 | $9,659 | Community College |
Belmont College | — | — | 2,020 | $5,919 | Community College |
College of Eastern Idaho | — | — | 3,013 | $8,728 | Community College |
Eastern Maine Community College | — | — | 2,719 | $8,036 | Community College |
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus | — | — | 2,082 | $4,171 | Community College |
Edgecombe Community College | — | — | 1,397 | $6,073 | Community College |
Iowa Lakes Community College | — | — | 1,945 | $10,846 | Community College |
J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College | — | — | 1,187 | $4,644 | Community College |
Kauai Community College | — | — | 1,335 | $5,724 | Community College |
Kennebec Valley Community College | — | — | 2,489 | $6,994 | Community College |
Mountwest Community and Technical College | — | — | 1,520 | $8,043 | Community College |
Neosho County Community College | — | — | 1,813 | $10,179 | Community College |
Nicolet Area Technical College | — | — | 1,384 | $9,290 | Community College |
Northern Maine Community College | — | — | 843 | $8,416 | Community College |
Northland Community and Technical College | — | — | 2,631 | $13,168 | Community College |
Nunez Community College | — | — | 2,819 | $10,017 | Community College |
Oconee Fall Line Technical College | — | — | 2,108 | $294 | Community College |
Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College | — | — | 2,106 | $6,119 | Community College |
Otero College | — | — | 959 | $11,329 | Community College |
Seward County Community College | — | — | 2,092 | $6,742 | Community College |
South Georgia Technical College | — | — | 1,795 | $1,026 | Community College |
Southern Arkansas University Tech | — | — | 991 | $5,895 | Community College |
Terra State Community College | — | — | 2,214 | $11,691 | Community College |
University of New Mexico-Gallup Campus | — | — | 1,687 | $5,467 | Community College |
West Virginia Northern Community College | — | — | 1,525 | $3,215 | Community College |
Western Dakota Technical College | — | — | 1,164 | $14,631 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 29% | — | 1,795 | $8,036 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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