Loyola University Maryland
Private College in Baltimore, MD. Six-year graduation rate 79%. Median 10-year earnings $82,652.
Ten-year median earnings of $82,652 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. 79% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation reaches $27,000, heavy enough to shape the years right after the degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.33 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 79% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.7 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 75% puts Loyola University Maryland on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 10,797 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. Yield is low at 12%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 14% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 620–690 | 130 (14%) |
| SAT Math | 580–680 | |
| ACT Composite | 28–32 | 29 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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79% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 87%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Transfer-out runs to 17% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 12:1 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 3,975 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $32,846 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $20,549 at the $0–30k band to $35,338 at $110k+. Most students get help: 98% receive grants worth $39,303 on average. Federal borrowing reaches 53% 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 · 1,111 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 | $20,549 |
| $30–48k | $23,462 |
| $48–75k | $27,419 |
| $75–110k | $27,939 |
| $110k+ | $35,338 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,092 of these 3,975 students, totalling $13,025,426 — an average of $6,226 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Baltimore City) — 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)