Bacone College
Private College in Muskogee, OK. Six-year graduation rate 2%.
- ! Graduation rate 2% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 2% graduate within six years. 31% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. At 13:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Net price lands at $16,970 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $11,948 at $0–30k, $18,353 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 75% of students at an average of $14,025. About 29% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 | $11,948 |
| $30–48k | $9,612 |
| $48–75k | $13,154 |
| $75–110k | $15,837 |
| $110k+ | $18,353 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Muskogee County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026