Hannibal-LaGrange University
Private College in Hannibal, MO. Six-year graduation rate 49%. Median 10-year earnings $42,643.
Ten years after entry, the median Hannibal-LaGrange University student earns $42,643 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Six-year completion sits at 49%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $18,599, 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
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 73% puts Hannibal-LaGrange University on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. With 285 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. Yield is high — 47% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate. The score bands below rest on the 38% of enrolled first-years who submitted an ACT 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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | 15–24 | 37 (38%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 49% finish inside six years. 78% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in five 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. Transfer-out runs to 23% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 395 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $22,685 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $21,285 at $0–30k, $25,979 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 82% of students at an average of $16,474. 52% 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 · 60 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 | $21,285 |
| $30–48k | $18,019 |
| $48–75k | $20,681 |
| $75–110k | $25,376 |
| $110k+ | $25,979 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 206 of these 395 students, totalling $1,375,844 — an average of $6,679 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Marion County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)