Faith International University
Private College in Tacoma, WA. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $51,006.
Students who entered Faith International University land at a median of $51,006 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is the weak point: 25% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $17,650, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.35 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Academics
Only 25% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential. 67% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore 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. A 25% 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 196 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $25,165 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $22,662 at $0–30k, $19,893 at $75–110k. 87% of students get grant aid averaging $7,052, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Only 24% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 5 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 | $22,662 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $19,893 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 47 of these 196 students, totalling $548,334 — an average of $11,667 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pierce 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)