Concordia College
at Moorhead
Private College in Moorhead, MN. Six-year graduation rate 61%. Median 10-year earnings $59,317.
Ten years after entry, the median Concordia College at Moorhead student earns $59,317 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 61%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $26,847 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
Concordia College at Moorhead accepts 63% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 4,763 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 19% 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 ACT 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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | 21–26 | 63 (11%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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61% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 84% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. Transfer-out runs to 27% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 12:1 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 1,721 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $25,190 annually once grants are applied. Net price varies modestly by income — $20,950 at $0–30k against $28,435 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Most students get help: 94% receive grants worth $19,926 on average. 55% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 438 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 | $20,950 |
| $30–48k | $18,889 |
| $48–75k | $20,115 |
| $75–110k | $23,045 |
| $110k+ | $28,435 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 955 of these 1,721 students, totalling $6,015,610 — an average of $6,299 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Clay 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)