DigiPen Institute
of Technology
For-profit College in Redmond, WA. Six-year graduation rate 61%. Median 10-year earnings $79,878.
A decade after enrolling, the median DigiPen Institute of Technology student earns $79,878 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate is 61%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Debt is the pressure point: a median of $27,000 at graduation.
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)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 64% puts DigiPen Institute of Technology on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. The applicant pool is small at 874, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. About 27% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. The score bands below rest on the 25% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 590–700 | 39 (25%) |
| SAT Math | 560–700 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–29 | 11 (7%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 61% finish inside six years. Retention of 76% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Being a for-profit four-year institution is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,033 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $41,779 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 $28,354 while those at $110k+ pay $52,617. Grant aid reaches 53% of students at an average of $12,838. 43% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 189 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 | $28,354 |
| $30–48k | $31,113 |
| $48–75k | $41,496 |
| $75–110k | $45,880 |
| $110k+ | $52,617 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 443 of these 1,033 students, totalling $3,140,263 — an average of $7,089 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (King 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)