Juniata College
Private College in Huntingdon, PA. Six-year graduation rate 74%. Median 10-year earnings $56,918.
Students who entered Juniata College land at a median of $56,918 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 74% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings. 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Juniata College accepts 79% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. The applicant pool runs to 2,779, typical for a school of this reach. Only 17% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 29% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
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 | 570–670 | 105 (29%) |
| SAT Math | 560–650 | |
| ACT Composite | 22–30 | 11 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 74% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 83% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Transfer-out runs to 15% — 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. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,194 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $24,580 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $18,729 while those at $110k+ pay $31,255. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $41,757, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 68% 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 · 390 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 | $18,729 |
| $30–48k | $17,265 |
| $48–75k | $16,997 |
| $75–110k | $19,312 |
| $110k+ | $31,255 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 812 of these 1,194 students, totalling $5,132,062 — an average of $6,320 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Huntingdon 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)