Coe College
Private College in Cedar Rapids, IA. Six-year graduation rate 66%. Median 10-year earnings $57,125.
Students who entered Coe College land at a median of $57,125 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 66% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation reaches $27,000, heavy enough to shape the years right after the degree.
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
An acceptance rate of 64% puts Coe College on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 8,633 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 6% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 9% 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 | 540–640 | 28 (9%) |
| SAT Math | 530–650 | |
| ACT Composite | 23–29 | 76 (25%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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66% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 73% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. A 20% 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. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 1,245 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $20,864 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $11,479 while those at $110k+ pay $27,167. Grant aid is widespread — 100% of students receive it, averaging $43,419. Most students borrow — 69% 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 · 359 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 | $11,479 |
| $30–48k | $11,523 |
| $48–75k | $14,475 |
| $75–110k | $20,223 |
| $110k+ | $27,167 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 863 of these 1,245 students, totalling $5,746,570 — an average of $6,659 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Linn 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)