Babson College
Private College in Wellesley, MA. Six-year graduation rate 93%. Median 10-year earnings $123,938.
Ten-year median earnings of $123,938 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 93% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation is $20,000, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.8% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.16 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 93% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 17% means admission is the exception — plan accordingly. 9,381 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield sits at 39% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. 22% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
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 | 670–740 | 139 (22%) |
| SAT Math | 720–790 | |
| ACT Composite | 31–34 | 21 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Babson College →Academics
A 93% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. First-year retention of 95% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. The undergraduate population is 2,752 — big enough for a real range of programs, small enough to navigate.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,696 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $32,019 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $23,641 at the $0–30k band to $80,192 at $110k+. 43% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 28% 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 · 626 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 | $23,641 |
| $30–48k | $17,077 |
| $48–75k | $16,861 |
| $75–110k | $55,470 |
| $110k+ | $80,192 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 745 of these 2,696 students, totalling $3,711,005 — an average of $4,981 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Norfolk 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)