Miami University-Hamilton
Public College in Hamilton, OH. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $55,076.
Students who entered Miami University-Hamilton land at a median of $55,076 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Only 25% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Median debt at graduation is $23,000, 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
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Academics
A six-year graduation rate of 25% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. 53% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 29% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 33% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,089 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $9,786 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $7,760 at $0–30k, $14,425 at $110k+. 47% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 36% 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 · 431 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 | $7,760 |
| $30–48k | $8,737 |
| $48–75k | $11,171 |
| $75–110k | $13,775 |
| $110k+ | $14,425 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 760 of these 2,089 students, totalling $4,679,504 — an average of $6,157 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Butler 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)