Record · College
Highline College
Public, four-year or above, in Des Moines, Washington.
Students and awards
From NCES’s 2025–26 IPEDS collection.
- 8,197
- Students enrolled during the year
- Everyone enrolled at any point in the 12 months, not fall enrollment.
- 8,197
- Undergraduates
- 0
- Graduate students
From NCES’s 2025–26 IPEDS collection.
- 66
- Bachelor's degrees awarded
- 718
- Associate's degrees awarded
- 0
- Master's degrees awarded
Graduation, admissions and price
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
- 35.0%
- Graduation rate
- Reported
- Bachelor's within six years
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
- Not in the publisher’s file for this year
- Applicants admitted
- Not in the publisher’s file for this year
- Admitted students who enrolled
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
- $4,772
- Tuition and fees
- $25,274
- Price in state, living on campus
- $25,834
- Price out of state, living on campus
Tuition and fees
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
Highline College published $4,772 in in-state tuition and fees for 2024–25, against $4,344 for 2021–22
Published in-state tuition and fees for full-time, first-time undergraduates, each academic year, as the college reported them to NCES: the price before any grant, in the dollars of each year. All four years are from one IPEDS release, which restates the years before it.
Source: IPEDS
About this chart
The figures
| Academic year | In-district | In-state | Out-of-state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024–25 | $4,772 | $4,772 | $5,332 |
| 2023–24 | $4,623 | $4,623 | $5,156 |
| 2022–23 | $4,458 | $4,458 | $4,948 |
| 2021–22 | $4,344 | $4,344 | $4,813 |
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| In-state tuition and fees | $4,772 |
| Books and supplies | $528 |
| Food and housing on campus | $15,228 |
| Other expenses on campus | $4,746 |
| Total, as NCES adds it | $25,274 |
The published price, before any grant or scholarship: what a student is charged, not what a student pays. Each NCES release restates the years before it, so all of these are from the one release.
Faculty pay
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
| Rank | Full-time staff | Average salary, nine-month basis |
|---|---|---|
| No academic rank | 149 | $96,640 |
| All ranks | 149 | $96,640 |
Full-time, non-medical instructional staff as of November 1. NCES equates 10-, 11- and 12-month contracts to nine months and averages base salary only; supplements and stipends are excluded. Ranks are the college’s own, and the newest collection is provisional.
How this compares
- Students enrolled during the year: 8,197
- Larger than 47% of the 859 colleges in its sector (public, four-year or above) that report an enrollment. Compared within its sector, because a two-year college and a research university are not the same kind of place.
- Graduation rate: 35%
- Higher than 27% of the 821 colleges in its sector (public, four-year or above) that report one.
- Average faculty salary, all ranks: $96,640
- Higher than 70% of the 844 colleges in its sector (public, four-year or above) in NCES's salary survey. Full-time instructional staff, equated to a nine-month contract.
What former students earn and owe
From the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, used under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Earnings are of students who received federal aid.
- $59,261
- Median earnings four years after completing
- $54,850
- Median earnings ten years after entering
- $9,820
- Median federal debt of graduates
- 0.0%
- Three-year default rate
The college’s entry
- Sector
- Public, four-year or above
- Control
- Public
- Grants degrees
- Yes
- Locale
- Suburb, large
- County
- King County
- IPEDS ID
- 235431
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
- College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data — U.S. Department of Education · retrieved October 15, 2026
U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, used under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).
Compiled automatically from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection and College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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