Champlain College
Private College in Burlington, VT. Six-year graduation rate 65%. Median 10-year earnings $58,386.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $58,386 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Completion is a strength: 65% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $26,814, neither a bargain nor a burden.
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
83% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 3,835, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 12%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 13% 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 | 620–700 | 49 (13%) |
| SAT Math | 600–680 | |
| ACT Composite | 26–29 | 14 (4%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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65% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. First-year retention of 82% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Retention drops to 67% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. The 13:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,870 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $38,173 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $28,885 while those at $110k+ pay $41,438. 73% of students receive grant aid, averaging $23,864 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 52% 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 · 525 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 | $28,885 |
| $30–48k | $26,034 |
| $48–75k | $34,164 |
| $75–110k | $33,857 |
| $110k+ | $41,438 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,497 of these 2,870 students, totalling $10,559,161 — an average of $7,054 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Chittenden 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)