Kentucky Mountain
Bible College
Private College in Jackson, KY. Six-year graduation rate 55%. Median 10-year earnings $21,256.
Ten-year median earnings of $21,256 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 55% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential.
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 100%, Kentucky Mountain Bible College takes nearly everyone who applies. With 31 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. Yield is high — 55% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 35% 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 | 505–598 | 6 (35%) |
| SAT Math | 443–528 | |
| ACT Composite | 17–25 | 6 (35%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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55% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 70% 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. The 9:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 77 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $9,302 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $5,773 at $0–30k versus $15,108 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 100% of students receive it, averaging $7,518. Federal borrowing reaches 27% of students.
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 · 10 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 | $5,773 |
| $30–48k | $10,363 |
| $48–75k | $11,465 |
| $75–110k | $11,513 |
| $110k+ | $15,108 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 21 of these 77 students, totalling $105,972 — an average of $5,046 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Breathitt 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)