Indiana University-Kokomo
Public College in Kokomo, IN. Six-year graduation rate 46%. Median 10-year earnings $49,917.
Students who entered Indiana University-Kokomo land at a median of $49,917 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 46%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $16,961 in debt — in line with the national norm.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.34 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 86%, Indiana University-Kokomo takes nearly everyone who applies. 1,938 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. About 32% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. 36% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
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 | 490–580 | 193 (36%) |
| SAT Math | 470–570 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–27 | 12 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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46% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 69% 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. A 20% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The 15:1 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 2,308 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $3,880 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $-583 at $0–30k versus $10,593 at $110k+. 67% of students receive grant aid, averaging $7,428 — common but not automatic. About 35% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 459 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 | $-583 |
| $30–48k | $-541 |
| $48–75k | $2,375 |
| $75–110k | $9,025 |
| $110k+ | $10,593 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 804 of these 2,308 students, totalling $5,073,555 — an average of $6,310 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Howard 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)