Longwood University
Public College in Farmville, VA. Six-year graduation rate 61%. Median 10-year earnings $52,347.
Ten years after entry, the median Longwood University student earns $52,347 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 61%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $25,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
- ! Mobility score 0.7 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 90% of applicants are accepted. The applicant pool runs to 5,391, typical for a school of this reach. A 17% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 25% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
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 | 530–630 | 205 (25%) |
| SAT Math | 500–580 | |
| ACT Composite | 19–26 | 19 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 61% finish inside six years. First-year retention of 80% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. 26% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,957 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $20,847 annually once grants are applied. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $11,896 at the $0–30k band to $26,747 at $110k+. 81% of students receive grant aid, averaging $13,368 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 50% 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 · 786 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 | $11,896 |
| $30–48k | $12,320 |
| $48–75k | $15,544 |
| $75–110k | $19,647 |
| $110k+ | $26,747 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,480 of these 2,957 students, totalling $9,509,008 — an average of $6,425 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Prince Edward 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)