Gwinnett College-Marietta Campus vs Miller-Motte College-Macon

Metric	Gwinnett College-Marietta Campus	Miller-Motte College-Macon
Undergraduate enrollment	205	230
Average net price What students actually pay after aid	$33,966	$21,074
Median debt at graduation	$12,498	$15,917
Graduation rate	31.1%	13.2%
First-year retention	62.5%	67.9%
Median salary (10 yr)	$25,373	$31,102

Metric

Gwinnett College-Marietta Campus

Miller-Motte College-Macon

Undergraduate enrollment

205

230

Average net price
What students actually pay after aid

$33,966

$21,074

Median debt at graduation

$12,498

$15,917

Graduation rate

31.1%

13.2%

First-year retention

62.5%

67.9%

Median salary (10 yr)

$25,373

$31,102

What the numbers say

Miller-Motte College-Macon costs less after aid — $21,074 a year versus $33,966, a difference of $12,892 annually, or roughly $51,568 across four years.
Miller-Motte College-Macon graduates report higher median earnings — $31,102 against $25,373 ten years after entry.
Gwinnett College-Marietta Campus graduates a larger share of its students — 31.1% versus 13.2%.
On pure return — salary divided by net price — Miller-Motte College-Macon comes out ahead at 1.5× versus 0.7×.

How to actually choose

Comparison tables are a starting point, not a decision. Three things matter more than anything in the table above:

Your real aid offer. Net price is an average across all income levels. Two students at the same school can pay amounts that differ by tens of thousands. Wait for actual award letters before ruling anything out on cost.
Your intended major. Earnings vary more between majors at one school than between schools for one major. A computer science graduate from the "lower earning" school here will likely out-earn a general studies graduate from the other.
Whether you will finish. Graduation rate is the metric most predictive of whether the money spent turns into a credential. Campus fit, support services, and commute all feed into it more than prestige does.

Visit before you commit

Both Gwinnett College-Marietta Campus and Miller-Motte College-Macon run campus visits. Spending an afternoon on each will tell you things no dataset can.