Marian University
Private College in Fond Du Lac, WI. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $53,501.
Students who entered Marian University land at a median of $53,501 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 44%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,000, neither a bargain nor a burden.
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
An acceptance rate of 75% puts Marian University on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 1,619 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 18% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere.
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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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44% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 67% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore 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 35% transfer-out rate is high enough that a large share of this school's students are really passing through. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,059 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $22,697 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The income table below is the number that matters — $17,449 at $0–30k versus $27,106 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 88% of students receive it, averaging $18,681. Borrowing is widespread: 79% take federal loans.
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 · 204 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 | $17,449 |
| $30–48k | $13,638 |
| $48–75k | $17,998 |
| $75–110k | $21,164 |
| $110k+ | $27,106 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 835 of these 1,059 students, totalling $5,656,155 — an average of $6,774 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Fond du Lac 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)