Magdalen College

Admissions

Selectivity is real here: only 44% of applicants are offered a place. The applicant pool is small at 45, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. Yield is high — 100% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate.

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.

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

Academics

Completion is middling: 53% finish inside six years. 80% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. 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

Average net price after grant aid is $20,058 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($16,336 versus $13,911), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $16,798, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 64% take federal loans.

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.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24