About
Texas State Technical College (TSTC) is a public technical college with its main campus in Waco, Texas. TSTC is the State of Texas's only public multicampus technical college, offering associate degrees and certificates in technical skills and trades on 11 campuses throughout the state. TSTC's headquarters are located north of Waco and are co-located with the Waco campus, the oldest TSTC location and flagship location. TSTC also operates campuses in Harlingen, Marshall, Red Oak, Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood, Sweetwater, Williamson County, and Fort Bend County.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 6.0-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 88 Title IV programs, 24 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 4 fail. 60 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing24 · 27.3%
- No Data60 · 68.2%
- Failing4 · 4.5%
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.
Near the line (±5%)
Programs within five points of the pass line, one cohort year from flipping.
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 · 1
Action history · 9
- Nov 2025Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Sep 2024Grant Substantive Change: OtherSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2024Grant Substantive Change: OtherSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Dec 2023Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Apr 2023Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
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, 8,272 students received $45.7M in Pell grants, alongside $22.2M 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 2,918 borrowers who entered repayment, 52 (1.7%) defaulted within three years — below 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 Texas State Technical 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 campus9
Includes 7 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
- Village Oaks Apartments "2500 Building1 firelighting a chair on fireDamage $10,000-$24,999
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Texas State Technical College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Texas State Technical 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectTexas State Technical College | 46% | — | 12,077 | $10,280 | Community College |
Augusta Technical College | — | — | 4,455 | $8,509 | Community College |
Barstow Community College | — | — | 3,226 | $12,347 | Community College |
Butte College | — | — | 10,968 | $4,632 | Community College |
College of the Redwoods | — | — | 4,706 | $3,214 | Community College |
East Mississippi Community College | — | — | 3,841 | $3,880 | Community College |
Florence-Darlington Technical College | — | — | 3,522 | $598 | Community College |
Gadsden State Community College | — | — | 5,071 | $3,568 | Community College |
George C Wallace Community College-Dothan | — | — | 4,044 | $2,697 | Community College |
George C Wallace State Community College-Hanceville | — | — | 6,424 | $14,042 | Community College |
Lamar Institute of Technology | — | — | 5,680 | $8,167 | Community College |
Lee College | — | — | 8,323 | $7,519 | Community College |
Louisiana Delta Community College | — | — | 3,463 | $8,306 | Community College |
Louisiana State University-Eunice | — | — | 3,670 | $9,619 | Community College |
Milwaukee Area Technical College | — | — | 13,792 | $9,589 | Community College |
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | — | — | 8,694 | $7,372 | Community College |
North Dakota State College of Science | — | — | 3,367 | $10,802 | Community College |
Piedmont Technical College | — | — | 5,143 | $10,862 | Community College |
Porterville College | — | — | 4,784 | $3,728 | Community College |
Somerset Community College | — | — | 6,155 | $3,913 | Community College |
South Louisiana Community College | — | — | 6,238 | $9,684 | Community College |
SOWELA Technical Community College | — | — | 3,446 | $8,861 | Community College |
Springfield Technical Community College | — | — | 5,447 | $8,196 | Community College |
St Cloud Technical and Community College | — | — | 4,030 | $10,956 | Community College |
State Technical College of Missouri | — | — | 2,346 | $13,958 | Community College |
Tri-County Technical College | — | — | 5,890 | $5,807 | Community College |
Western Technical College | — | — | 3,625 | $12,069 | Community College |
Wharton County Junior College | — | — | 5,504 | $5,021 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 46% | — | 4,928 | $8,251 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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