Miami University-Oxford
Public Research University in Oxford, OH. Six-year graduation rate 80%. Median 10-year earnings $55,076.
Students who entered Miami University-Oxford land at a median of $55,076 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 80% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $23,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 80% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
75% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. With 39,580 applications received, this is a school operating at national scale. A 14% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 8% 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 | 610–690 | 342 (8%) |
| SAT Math | 610–700 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–30 | 1,000 (24%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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80% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 90% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Transfer-out runs to 14% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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 16,362 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $28,229 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The income table below is the number that matters — $16,015 at $0–30k versus $31,431 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 87% of students receive it, averaging $13,573. 33% 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 · 3,926 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 | $16,015 |
| $30–48k | $18,193 |
| $48–75k | $23,806 |
| $75–110k | $29,048 |
| $110k+ | $31,431 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 5,477 of these 16,362 students, totalling $34,620,304 — an average of $6,321 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)