Bryant University
Private College in Smithfield, RI. Six-year graduation rate 80%. Median 10-year earnings $90,008.
Students who entered Bryant University reach a median of $90,008 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. The six-year graduation rate of 80% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Graduates carry a median of $26,849 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.30 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 80% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
65% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 9,825 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Only 14% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 11% 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 | 610–660 | 94 (11%) |
| SAT Math | 580–670 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–28 | 9 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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80% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 87%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Transfer-out runs to 15% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 13:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 3,236 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $42,139 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $32,698 at the $0–30k band to $44,846 at $110k+. 95% of students get grant aid averaging $27,257, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 52% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 947 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 | $32,698 |
| $30–48k | $34,055 |
| $48–75k | $36,130 |
| $75–110k | $39,680 |
| $110k+ | $44,846 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,669 of these 3,236 students, totalling $10,414,526 — an average of $6,240 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Providence 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)