Durham Technical Community College

Durham, NC · Public · 3,890 undergrads · website ↗

No application fee
Open admission

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

Not published

This college doesn't report a transfer rate to the Department of Education. That means unknown — not zero. Ask them directly.

Completed after transferring: 3.8%
Still enrolled after transferring: 5.6%

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$525
$30,000 – $48,000	$1,495
$48,000 – $75,000	$2,850
$75,000 – $110,000	$9,407
Over $110,000	$9,930
All incomes (average)	$1,664

Sticker tuition and fees: $1,986 in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.

These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use Durham Technical Community College's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.

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Other costs of attendance, 2025–26

The college's own estimate for a full-time undergraduate for the year, before aid, from the October 2026 College Scorecard. It is a newer year than the tuition and net prices above, so don't add the two together.

Housing and meals, off campus (not with family)	$10,872
Books and supplies	$1,300
Other expenses, off campus	$4,920

Outcomes

Completion rate: 45%
Students with Pell grants: 31%
Earnings @ 10yr: $36,142
Median debt: $14,750

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Open admission
Application fee: None
Students per faculty member: 7 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 22%

What students study

Health & Nursing23%

Business8%

Computer Science7%

Education7%

Foreign Languages4%

Criminal Justice3%

Engineering2%

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (6)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities	268	$39,477	$42,665national $44,125	$9,500
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	38	$78,517	$83,872national $80,813	$12,000
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services	24	$42,796	$38,883national $42,269	—
Health and Medical Administrative Services	17	$52,780	$54,338national $37,073	—
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods	15	$38,690	—national $37,656	—
Ophthalmic and Optometric Support Services and Allied Professions	13	$63,645	$74,897national $48,724	—

Undergraduate certificates (6)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services	73	$41,281	—national $45,242	—
Criminal Justice and Corrections	40	$56,889	$61,534national $57,702	—
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods	27	$41,912	$38,884national $34,631	—
Health and Medical Administrative Services	25	—	$88,914national $35,447	—
Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants	24	—	$74,234national $56,073	—
Computer and Information Sciences, General	14	$68,497	—national $50,984	—

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 39 more programmes at this college have every figure suppressed and are not listed.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in NC

Johnson & Wales University-CharlotteCharlotte21%Cabarrus College of Health SciencesConcord0%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 1637 Lawson Street, Durham, NC 27703-5023
Phone: (919) 536-7200
Institutional accreditor: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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