Davenport University
Private College in Grand Rapids, MI. Six-year graduation rate 57%. Median 10-year earnings $45,099.
Students who entered Davenport University land at a median of $45,099 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 57%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $26,000, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
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
With an acceptance rate of 98%, Davenport University takes nearly everyone who applies. 4,391 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 14% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class.
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 | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 57%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. First-year retention of 82% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. The part-time picture is harder: 30% return, against 82% full-time. At 18:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,214 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $18,538 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $16,700 while those at $110k+ pay $28,703. 97% of students get grant aid averaging $12,510, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 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 · 484 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 | $16,700 |
| $30–48k | $22,376 |
| $48–75k | $22,856 |
| $75–110k | $24,420 |
| $110k+ | $28,703 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,755 of these 3,214 students, totalling $17,566,274 — an average of $10,009 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kent 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)