Connecticut College
Private College in New London, CT. Six-year graduation rate 82%. Median 10-year earnings $75,001.
A decade after enrolling, the median Connecticut College student earns $75,001 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Completion is a strength: 82% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $23,500, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 82% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 37%, the acceptance rate makes Connecticut College a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. The applicant pool runs to 7,950, typical for a school of this reach. Only 15% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 18% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 690–760 | 83 (18%) |
| SAT Math | 660–740 | |
| ACT Composite | 30–33 | 27 (6%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 82% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. First-year retention of 90% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. 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 9:1 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 1,959 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $45,700 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $13,341 at the $0–30k band to $47,031 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 99% of students receive it, averaging $38,074. Federal borrowing reaches 36% 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 · 555 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 | $13,341 |
| $30–48k | $16,892 |
| $48–75k | $28,961 |
| $75–110k | $29,797 |
| $110k+ | $47,031 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 707 of these 1,959 students, totalling $4,334,874 — an average of $6,131 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region) — 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)