Malone University
Private College in Canton, OH. Six-year graduation rate 45%. Median 10-year earnings $48,909.
Students who entered Malone University land at a median of $48,909 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 45%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $26,289, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
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 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
76% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. With 1,313 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. 23% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction. The score bands below rest on the 10% 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 | 470–590 | 23 (10%) |
| SAT Math | 460–590 | |
| ACT Composite | 18–24 | 149 (65%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 45%, meaning about three in five students who enroll leave without finishing. 76% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. 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 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 816 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $22,390 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $13,290 while those at $110k+ pay $24,613. Grant aid is widespread — 98% of students receive it, averaging $27,656. 71% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 218 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 | $13,290 |
| $30–48k | $17,253 |
| $48–75k | $17,667 |
| $75–110k | $24,502 |
| $110k+ | $24,613 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 578 of these 816 students, totalling $3,804,348 — an average of $6,582 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Stark County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Compliance Audit Late or Missing); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)