Delaware College
of Art and Design

Admissions

61% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool is small at 213, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. Yield sits at 35% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all.

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.

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

Academics

41% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Just 56% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. A 10:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. As a private nonprofit two-year college, the relevant comparison is other two-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions.

Financial Aid

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Students pay $32,604 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 $30,453 at the $0–30k band to $38,624 at $110k+. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $13,601, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 71% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.

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.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24