Friends University
Private College in Wichita, KS. Six-year graduation rate 43%. Median 10-year earnings $52,113.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $52,113 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Six-year completion sits at 43%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,000, neither a bargain nor a burden.
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
- ! Mobility score 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 55% of applicants are offered a place. The applicant pool is small at 1,025, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. A 45% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through. The score bands below rest on the 4% 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 | 500–530 | 9 (4%) |
| SAT Math | 460–560 | |
| ACT Composite | 15–28 | 56 (22%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 43%, meaning about three in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 65% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. 33% of students transfer out, which reframes what the graduation rate above is measuring. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,015 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $28,889 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $21,714 at the $0–30k band to $31,471 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 94% of students receive it, averaging $20,775. Most students borrow — 83% 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 · 247 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 | $21,714 |
| $30–48k | $23,992 |
| $48–75k | $25,517 |
| $75–110k | $29,377 |
| $110k+ | $31,471 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 845 of these 1,015 students, totalling $6,230,168 — an average of $7,373 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Sedgwick 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)