Hobart William
Smith Colleges
Private College in Geneva, NY. Six-year graduation rate 77%. Median 10-year earnings $68,831.
Ten-year median earnings of $68,831 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. The six-year graduation rate of 77% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Median debt at graduation reaches $27,000, heavy enough to shape the years right after the degree. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.2% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 77% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 64% puts Hobart William Smith Colleges on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 5,904 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 15%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 22% 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 | 610–700 | 119 (22%) |
| SAT Math | 580–685 | |
| ACT Composite | 28–32 | 38 (7%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 77% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention is strong at 86%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Transfer-out runs to 14% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,606 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $34,170 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $14,650 while those at $110k+ pay $39,740. Grant aid is widespread — 98% of students receive it, averaging $47,032. Most students borrow — 74% 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 · 462 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 | $14,650 |
| $30–48k | $12,639 |
| $48–75k | $22,108 |
| $75–110k | $23,149 |
| $110k+ | $39,740 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,192 of these 1,606 students, totalling $6,200,003 — an average of $5,201 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Ontario 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)