Allegheny College
Private College in Meadville, PA. Six-year graduation rate 73%. Median 10-year earnings $62,069.
Students who entered Allegheny College reach a median of $62,069 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 73% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings.
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
Selectivity is real here: only 55% of applicants are offered a place. The applicant pool runs to 5,758, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 10%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 25% 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 | 610–690 | 80 (25%) |
| SAT Math | 563–668 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–30 | 27 (8%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Allegheny College →Academics
Six-year completion runs to 73% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. First-year retention is 78% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 — 1,232 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 1,211 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $26,420 annually once grants are applied. The income table below is the number that matters — $18,495 at $0–30k versus $30,046 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 98% of students receive it, averaging $45,452. Most students borrow — 57% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 282 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 | $18,495 |
| $30–48k | $27,718 |
| $48–75k | $13,059 |
| $75–110k | $21,357 |
| $110k+ | $30,046 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 694 of these 1,211 students, totalling $4,611,361 — an average of $6,645 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Crawford 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)