Emory &
Henry University
Private College in Emory, VA. Six-year graduation rate 56%. Median 10-year earnings $47,385.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $47,385 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. 56% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Median debt at graduation is $26,332, 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
84% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 2,569 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 12% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 10% 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 | 548–640 | 26 (10%) |
| SAT Math | 503–583 | |
| ACT Composite | 20–26 | 27 (11%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 56%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 66% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 28% 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. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,107 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,446 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The income table below is the number that matters — $14,246 at $0–30k versus $23,418 at $110k+. 96% of students get grant aid averaging $32,150, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 59% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 338 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 | $14,246 |
| $30–48k | $14,430 |
| $48–75k | $17,622 |
| $75–110k | $19,029 |
| $110k+ | $23,418 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 653 of these 1,107 students, totalling $4,122,974 — an average of $6,314 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Washington 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)