Gonzaga University
Private College in Spokane, WA. Six-year graduation rate 86%. Median 10-year earnings $78,892.
Ten-year median earnings of $78,892 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 86% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $24,454, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 86% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Gonzaga University accepts 82% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 8,759 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Yield is low at 18%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 7% 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 | 600–700 | 88 (7%) |
| SAT Math | 590–680 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–31 | 272 (22%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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86% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. First-year retention of 93% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. With 5,163 undergraduates, the school sits in the middle of the size distribution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,098 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $40,117 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $20,833 at $0–30k versus $42,668 at $110k+. 99% of students get grant aid averaging $29,802, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 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 · 1,253 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 | $20,833 |
| $30–48k | $23,112 |
| $48–75k | $25,106 |
| $75–110k | $33,949 |
| $110k+ | $42,668 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,836 of these 5,098 students, totalling $11,298,330 — an average of $6,154 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Spokane 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)