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Kairos University

Private College in Sioux Falls, SD.

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Kairos University · Campus
Federal loan default
0%
Green Flags
  • ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Admissions

Acceptance rate
85%
Applicants
39
Yield rate
9.1%

An acceptance rate of 85% puts Kairos University on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. With 39 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. Only 9% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere.

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
—
Transfer-out rate
—
Student:faculty
9:1

The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. At 9:1, 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. This is a small school — 36 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.

Financial Aid

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

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 36 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Local housing costs

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

Studio
$865/mo
1 bedroom
$986/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,156/mo

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

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
14
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Kairos University

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