Marymount University
Private College in Arlington, VA. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $67,516.
A decade after enrolling, the median Marymount University student earns $67,516 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Six-year completion sits at 54%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $25,000, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 3.4% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top.
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
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 93% of applicants are accepted. 4,329 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 12% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering 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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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54% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. 30% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 14:1 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 1,795 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $31,989 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($27,413 versus $30,618), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Most students get help: 88% receive grants worth $24,365 on average. 42% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 406 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 | $27,413 |
| $30–48k | $27,111 |
| $48–75k | $27,718 |
| $75–110k | $31,962 |
| $110k+ | $30,618 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 760 of these 1,795 students, totalling $5,136,722 — an average of $6,759 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Arlington County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: Warning (Additional oversight is required to ensure a resolution of compliance issues), Heightened Cash Monitoring (Compliance Audit Late or Missing); School has an accreditation issue; School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)