Creighton University
Private Research University in Omaha, NE. Six-year graduation rate 83%. Median 10-year earnings $73,911.
A decade after enrolling, the median Creighton University student earns $73,911 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. 83% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $25,000 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 0.34 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 83% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
80% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 7,907 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Only 18% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 10% 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 | 620–708 | 110 (10%) |
| SAT Math | 623–720 | |
| ACT Composite | 26–31 | 460 (41%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 83% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 94% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. 13% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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 4,231 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $32,636 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $20,472 while those at $110k+ pay $35,090. Grant aid is widespread — 95% of students receive it, averaging $29,205. Federal borrowing reaches 42% 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 · 1,044 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 | $20,472 |
| $30–48k | $22,095 |
| $48–75k | $23,405 |
| $75–110k | $28,113 |
| $110k+ | $35,090 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,788 of these 4,231 students, totalling $11,626,978 — an average of $6,503 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Douglas 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)