How much does Western Piedmont Community College cost?

In-state tuition and fees are $2,650 a year, and $8,794 for out-of-state students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $6,448 a year.

How many Western Piedmont Community College programs report graduate pay?

2 associate's programs and one certificate program at Western Piedmont Community College report first-year pay, and 1 of them also report federal debt.

Western Piedmont Community College Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Public college
Morganton, NC
1,339 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

Western Piedmont Community College has two associate's programs that report what graduates earn. Nursing pays more in the first year ($66,888) than Liberal Arts and General Studies ($29,365). Western Piedmont Community College also has one certificate program that reports pay.

In-state tuition and fees$2,650Per year. Out-of-state $8,794

Average net price after aid$6,448Per year

Graduation rate49%Within 1.5 times the normal program length

Both associate's programs

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in North Carolina" compares first-year pay with the same field's associate's programs across North Carolina.

Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in North Carolina
NursingAbout 18 graduates a year	$66,888	$75,958	$11,999	33rd of 53
Liberal Arts and General StudiesAbout 141 graduates a year	$29,365	$33,772	Not reported	13th of 49

Program names link to the program's own page, and North Carolina ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five North Carolina programs in the field do too.

One certificate program

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in North Carolina" compares first-year pay with the same field's certificate programs across North Carolina.

Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in North Carolina
Criminal JusticeAbout 35 graduates a year	$44,397	$51,065	Not reported	9th of 14

Common questions

Nursing graduates earn a median of $66,888 in their first year, the most of 2 Western Piedmont Community College associate's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of North Carolina rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels