Brigham Young University-Idaho
Private College in Rexburg, ID. Six-year graduation rate 56%. Median 10-year earnings $53,406.
Students who entered Brigham Young University-Idaho land at a median of $53,406 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 56%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,969 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 96%, Brigham Young University-Idaho takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool is large — 18,951 in the most recent cycle — so the published rate reflects genuine competition rather than a small-sample quirk. Yield is high — 44% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 21% 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 | 490–610 | 1,697 (21%) |
| SAT Math | 480–590 | |
| ACT Composite | 20–26 | 1,992 (25%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 56% finish inside six years. 71% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. A 17% 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. The part-time picture is harder: 46% return, against 71% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 41,921 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $8,528 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $4,378 at the $0–30k band to $13,764 at $110k+. Grant aid is limited — 37% of students receive any. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 11% 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 · 3,562 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 | $4,378 |
| $30–48k | $4,579 |
| $48–75k | $5,854 |
| $75–110k | $8,986 |
| $110k+ | $13,764 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 4,608 of these 41,921 students, totalling $36,056,439 — an average of $7,825 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Madison 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)