Culver-Stockton College
Private College in Canton, MO. Six-year graduation rate 39%. Median 10-year earnings $46,092.
Students who entered Culver-Stockton College land at a median of $46,092 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Only 39% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Graduates carry a median of $26,000 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 99% of applicants are accepted. 1,880 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 10% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere.
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 | — | 3 (2%) |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | 4 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Only 39% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential. First-year retention is 67% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. The 44% transfer-out rate is high enough that a large share of this school's students are really passing through. The 15:1 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 884 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $21,996 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price varies modestly by income — $17,712 at $0–30k against $24,786 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 96% of students get grant aid averaging $22,125, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 75% take federal loans.
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 · 250 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 | $17,712 |
| $30–48k | $18,801 |
| $48–75k | $21,584 |
| $75–110k | $24,016 |
| $110k+ | $24,786 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 666 of these 884 students, totalling $4,561,586 — an average of $6,849 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lewis 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)