About
Western Texas College (WTC) is a public community college in Snyder, Texas. It was established in 1969 and has two downtown Snyder locations in addition to the main campus. With an enrollment around 2,300, Western Texas College has an extensive distance-learning department, provides dual-credit courses to 43 area high schools, and provides college-level coursework to inmates in three prisons in the West Texas area.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 36 Title IV programs, 1 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 35 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing1 · 2.8%
- No Data35 · 97.2%
- 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.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Action history · 5
- May 2024Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Dec 2023Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Oct 2021Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2018Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2018Renewal of AccreditationSouthern 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, 286 students received $1.6M in Pell grants, alongside $327K 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 87 borrowers who entered repayment, 3 (3.4%) 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 Western Texas 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
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 · 8
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
- Clinton Hall1 fireOtherDamage $10,000-$24,999
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Western Texas College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Western Texas 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectWestern Texas College | 53% | — | 1,385 | $4,094 | Community College |
Allen County Community College | — | — | 1,855 | $5,899 | Community College |
Arkansas State University Mid-South | — | — | 1,022 | $3,558 | Community College |
Blue Mountain Community College | — | — | 1,407 | $12,133 | Community College |
City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College | — | — | 3,137 | $5,749 | Community College |
Clatsop Community College | — | — | 754 | $13,433 | Community College |
College of the Albemarle | — | — | 2,905 | $4,751 | Community College |
Columbia Gorge Community College | — | — | 812 | $10,550 | Community College |
Dawson Community College | — | — | 332 | $10,094 | Community College |
Eastern New Mexico University Ruidoso Branch Community College | — | — | 773 | $4,230 | Community College |
Frank Phillips College | — | — | 1,801 | $10,803 | Community College |
Frontier Community College | — | — | — | $10,611 | Community College |
Klamath Community College | — | — | 1,834 | $8,084 | Community College |
Martin Community College | — | — | 891 | $3,337 | Community College |
Mountain Gateway Community College | — | — | 989 | $6,307 | Community College |
New Mexico State University-Alamogordo | — | — | 1,152 | $5,789 | Community College |
North Central Michigan College | — | — | 1,613 | $5,457 | Community College |
Ohio University-Eastern Campus | 20% | — | 1,235 | $4,503 | Community College |
Paul D Camp Community College | — | — | 1,219 | $5,666 | Community College |
Redlands Community College | — | — | 2,184 | $5,596 | Community College |
Southeast Arkansas College | — | — | 916 | $11,185 | Community College |
Southeast New Mexico College | — | — | 1,431 | $4,821 | Community College |
Tillamook Bay Community College | — | — | 587 | $4,700 | Community College |
Tri-County Community College | — | — | 1,023 | $4,584 | Community College |
University of Akron Wayne College | — | 89.9% | 1,411 | $9,717 | Community College |
University of New Mexico-Los Alamos Campus | — | — | 349 | $10,050 | Community College |
University of South Carolina-Lancaster | — | 83.4% | 2,687 | $9,735 | Community College |
University of South Carolina-Sumter | — | 74.1% | 1,845 | $9,283 | Community College |
University of South Carolina-Union | — | 62.2% | 1,402 | $11,125 | Community College |
Warren County Community College | — | — | 944 | $3,550 | Community College |
Windward Community College | — | — | 2,765 | $7,533 | Community College |
Wytheville Community College | — | — | 2,107 | $4,037 | Community College |
York County Community College | — | — | 1,875 | $7,025 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 37% | 78.7% | 1,394 | $5,899 |
Western Texas College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The role of the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at Western Texas College is to provide timely, accurate and institutionally relevant data to support decision-making processes.
Visit IR office page- Donald SewellChief Institutional Effectiveness and Strategy Officer
- Britt CanadaDean of Institutional Research & Effectiveness Title V Grant Director
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Notable alumni of Western Texas College (6)
A curated list of alumni recognized for notable achievements across industries.
- Deborah Acquah
- Niesha Burgher
- O'Jay Ferguson
- Julie Goodenough
- Ian KerrAthletics
- J. D. Sheffield
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