LeTourneau University
Private College in Longview, TX. Six-year graduation rate 59%. Median 10-year earnings $57,103.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $57,103 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. 59% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Graduates carry a median of $26,000 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 3.8% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution 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
Selectivity is real here: only 38% of applicants are offered a place. 3,673 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. 22% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction. Score ranges below describe the middle half of score submitters among enrolled first-years; students who applied test-optional 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 | 500–660 | 300 (96%) |
| SAT Math | 490–670 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–30 | 180 (58%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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59% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. First-year retention of 81% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. The 11:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 1,554 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $29,799 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $22,785 at $0–30k versus $31,854 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 90% of students receive it, averaging $20,470. 50% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 334 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 | $22,785 |
| $30–48k | $21,806 |
| $48–75k | $24,777 |
| $75–110k | $28,892 |
| $110k+ | $31,854 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 773 of these 1,554 students, totalling $5,571,303 — an average of $7,207 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Gregg 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)