Alice Lloyd College
Private College in Pippa Passes, KY. Six-year graduation rate 39%. Median 10-year earnings $40,573.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $40,573, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Only 39% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates carry a median of $19,599 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
75% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 2,673 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 11% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below rest on the 3% 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 | 380–500 | 7 (3%) |
| SAT Math | 330–460 | |
| ACT Composite | 16–22 | 188 (88%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Only 39% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential. Just 57% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. A 13% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 535 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $18,600 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $17,444 at $0–30k, $19,349 at $110k+. 99% of students get grant aid averaging $13,411, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 46% 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 · 181 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 | $17,444 |
| $30–48k | $16,447 |
| $48–75k | $17,715 |
| $75–110k | $21,757 |
| $110k+ | $19,349 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 246 of these 535 students, totalling $1,169,350 — an average of $4,753 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Knott 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)