Agnes Scott College
Private College in Decatur, GA. Six-year graduation rate 71%. Median 10-year earnings $56,274.
Students who entered Agnes Scott College land at a median of $56,274 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is a strength: 71% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation is $26,749, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
62% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 2,090, typical for a school of this reach. Only 16% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 27% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 620–695 | 56 (27%) |
| SAT Math | 540–635 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–31 | 36 (17%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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71% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 81%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The 10:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. This is a small school — 911 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 898 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $27,499 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $21,467 while those at $110k+ pay $30,054. Most students get help: 100% receive grants worth $38,052 on average. 53% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 241 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $21,467 |
| $30–48k | $21,956 |
| $48–75k | $23,697 |
| $75–110k | $25,194 |
| $110k+ | $30,054 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 479 of these 898 students, totalling $3,051,221 — an average of $6,370 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (DeKalb County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)