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Private College

Hellenic College-Holy
Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

Private College in Brookline, MA. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $51,724.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$51,724
Median debt at grad
$21,500
Graduation rate
44.4%
Federal loan default
0%

Ten years after entry, the median Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology student earns $51,724 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Six-year completion sits at 44%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $21,500, 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.

Green Flags
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Admissions

Acceptance rate
80%
Applicants
54
Yield rate
25.6%

An acceptance rate of 80% puts Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. The applicant pool is small at 54, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. 26% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction.

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

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

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Academics

Full-time retention
71%
Transfer-out rate
56%
Student:faculty
7:1

44% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 71% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 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. With 56% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. At 7:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$23,870
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
100%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
51%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 49 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Students pay an average of $23,870 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($24,953 versus $29,993), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $18,251, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 51% 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.

% receiving grants
86%
Average grant
$17,412

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 14 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 $24,953
$30–48k $21,521
$48–75k
$75–110k
$110k+ $29,993

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 25 of these 49 students, totalling $182,383 — an average of $7,295 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Norfolk County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$2,333/mo
1 bedroom
$2,450/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,919/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
12
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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