Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Private College in Boston, MA. Six-year graduation rate 61%. Median 10-year earnings $125,557.
Ten-year median earnings of $125,557 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. The six-year graduation rate is 61%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,000, neither a bargain nor a burden. On economic mobility, 9.3% of students travel 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.20 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Mobility score 9.3 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences admits 85% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. The applicant pool runs to 6,010, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 13%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. 7% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the 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 | 570–678 | 48 (7%) |
| SAT Math | 590–738 | |
| ACT Composite | 26–30 | 8 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 61%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 74% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. A 27% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The 9:1 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 3,474 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $41,506 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $35,206 while those at $110k+ pay $43,470. Grant aid is widespread — 97% of students receive it, averaging $14,942. Most students borrow — 67% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 669 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 | $35,206 |
| $30–48k | $36,228 |
| $48–75k | $38,376 |
| $75–110k | $42,536 |
| $110k+ | $43,470 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,319 of these 3,474 students, totalling $21,573,681 — an average of $9,303 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Suffolk 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)