East Texas
A&M University
Public College in Commerce, TX. Six-year graduation rate 43%. Median 10-year earnings $50,296.
Students who entered East Texas A&M University land at a median of $50,296 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 43%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $20,500 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
East Texas A&M University admits 92% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. 10,625 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. Yield is low at 12%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 35% 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 | 480–580 | 422 (35%) |
| SAT Math | 430–570 | |
| ACT Composite | 18–24 | 154 (13%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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43% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 57% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. A 26% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 42% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 8,250 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $12,327 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $9,709 at the $0–30k band to $20,005 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 68% of students at an average of $8,944. 36% 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 · 1,038 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 | $9,709 |
| $30–48k | $10,346 |
| $48–75k | $12,067 |
| $75–110k | $17,230 |
| $110k+ | $20,005 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,930 of these 8,250 students, totalling $21,220,614 — an average of $7,243 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hunt 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)