Belmont University
Private College in Nashville, TN. Six-year graduation rate 70%. Median 10-year earnings $55,930.
Students who entered Belmont University land at a median of $55,930 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 70% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $20,500 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
- ! Mobility score 0.6 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 95% of applicants are accepted. The applicant pool runs to 9,165, typical for a school of this reach. A 18% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 18% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
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 | 600–690 | 272 (18%) |
| SAT Math | 560–660 | |
| ACT Composite | 24–30 | 570 (37%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Belmont University →Academics
Six-year completion runs to 70% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention is strong at 87%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 · grant and loan rates against 7,306 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $38,578 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $22,950 at $0–30k versus $43,606 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 84% of students at an average of $22,883. About 34% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 1,662 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 | $22,950 |
| $30–48k | $24,723 |
| $48–75k | $28,009 |
| $75–110k | $32,153 |
| $110k+ | $43,606 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,513 of these 7,306 students, totalling $16,124,452 — an average of $6,416 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Davidson 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)