Lebanon Valley College
Private College in Annville, PA. Six-year graduation rate 65%. Median 10-year earnings $62,621.
Students who entered Lebanon Valley College reach a median of $62,621 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Completion is a strength: 65% of students finish within six years. Debt is the pressure point: a median of $27,000 at graduation.
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
84% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 2,729, typical for a school of this reach. Only 19% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 20% 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 | 580–652 | 88 (20%) |
| SAT Math | 560–650 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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65% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 83% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. 27% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,670 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $27,995 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $20,788 at the $0–30k band to $31,533 at $110k+. 97% of students get grant aid averaging $35,933, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 71% take federal loans.
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 · 476 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 | $20,788 |
| $30–48k | $21,773 |
| $48–75k | $22,266 |
| $75–110k | $26,236 |
| $110k+ | $31,533 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,181 of these 1,670 students, totalling $7,672,513 — an average of $6,497 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lebanon 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)