Baldwin Wallace University
Private College in Berea, OH. Six-year graduation rate 67%. Median 10-year earnings $54,122.
Students who entered Baldwin Wallace University land at a median of $54,122 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 67% 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
76% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 4,819 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Yield is low at 19%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. 18% 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 | 550–650 | 125 (18%) |
| SAT Math | 510–640 | |
| ACT Composite | 22–29 | 112 (16%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 67% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 84% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. A 22% 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 12:1, 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 2,775 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $27,991 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $21,296 while those at $110k+ pay $31,288. 99% of students get grant aid averaging $28,784, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 83% take federal loans.
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 · 730 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 | $21,296 |
| $30–48k | $20,381 |
| $48–75k | $22,994 |
| $75–110k | $27,597 |
| $110k+ | $31,288 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,305 of these 2,775 students, totalling $15,595,691 — an average of $6,766 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cuyahoga County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)