Curry College
Private College in Milton, MA. Six-year graduation rate 51%. Median 10-year earnings $54,400.
Students who entered Curry College land at a median of $54,400 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 51%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,000, 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Curry College admits 88% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. 5,313 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 12%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 4% 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 | 530–620 | 22 (4%) |
| SAT Math | 520–610 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 51% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 66% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. 34% of students transfer out, which reframes what the graduation rate above is measuring. 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 1,794 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $29,917 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $23,806 while those at $110k+ pay $33,973. 88% of students get grant aid averaging $30,361, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 72% 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 · 523 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 | $23,806 |
| $30–48k | $23,372 |
| $48–75k | $26,827 |
| $75–110k | $32,286 |
| $110k+ | $33,973 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,289 of these 1,794 students, totalling $8,681,238 — an average of $6,735 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Norfolk 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)