Indiana University
of Pennsylvania
Public Research University in Indiana, PA. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $51,019.
Students who entered Indiana University of Pennsylvania land at a median of $51,019 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 54%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $26,798, 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
With an acceptance rate of 91%, Indiana University of Pennsylvania takes nearly everyone who applies. 8,238 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. About 24% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. The score bands below rest on the 28% 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 | 490–600 | 509 (28%) |
| SAT Math | 480–580 | |
| ACT Composite | 20–27 | 28 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 54% finish inside six years. 75% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 23% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 10% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 6,892 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $17,626 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The income table below is the number that matters — $12,364 at $0–30k versus $21,933 at $110k+. 89% of students get grant aid averaging $8,675, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 64% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 1,984 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 | $12,364 |
| $30–48k | $11,851 |
| $48–75k | $14,516 |
| $75–110k | $19,722 |
| $110k+ | $21,933 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 4,380 of these 6,892 students, totalling $26,737,659 — an average of $6,104 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Indiana 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)