Blue Mountain
Christian University
Private College in Blue Mountain, MS. Six-year graduation rate 55%. Median 10-year earnings $40,421.
Students who entered Blue Mountain Christian University reach a median of $40,421 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 55%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $18,534 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
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 89%, Blue Mountain Christian University takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool is small at 181, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. A 57% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through. Read the score bands below as the middle 50% of submitted scores, not a threshold to clear.
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 | — | 4 (4%) |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | 19–24 | 84 (92%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 55% finish inside six years. Retention of 68% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. 29% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 13:1, 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 538 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $24,712 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($23,112 versus $23,067), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 97% of students get grant aid averaging $15,641, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 88% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 106 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 | $23,112 |
| $30–48k | $23,791 |
| $48–75k | $24,721 |
| $75–110k | $26,722 |
| $110k+ | $23,067 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 472 of these 538 students, totalling $2,314,776 — an average of $4,904 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Tippah 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)