Beacon College
Private College in Leesburg, FL. Six-year graduation rate 58%. Median 10-year earnings $29,420.
Students who entered Beacon College reach a median of $29,420 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 58%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $25,000, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
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
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.85 — elevated (above 0.60)
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 43% of applicants are offered a place. With 674 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. 39% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction.
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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 58% finish inside six years. Retention is strong at 85%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. At 12:1, 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 527 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $46,997 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $47,601 while those at $110k+ pay $58,721. Grant aid is widespread — 95% of students receive it, averaging $24,107. Federal borrowing reaches 35% of students.
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 · 126 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 | $47,601 |
| $30–48k | $47,213 |
| $48–75k | $52,117 |
| $75–110k | $55,423 |
| $110k+ | $58,721 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 184 of these 527 students, totalling $1,198,256 — an average of $6,512 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lake 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)