MidAmerica Nazarene University
Private College in Olathe, KS. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $62,972.
Ten-year median earnings of $62,972 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. The six-year graduation rate is 54%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $15,000 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
79% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. Only 1,099 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. Yield sits at 26% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 7% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
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 | 460–540 | 17 (7%) |
| SAT Math | 490–550 | |
| ACT Composite | 17–23 | 142 (62%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 54% finish inside six years. 70% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 975 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $32,081 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $28,842 at $0–30k versus $37,571 at $110k+. Most students get help: 89% receive grants worth $22,787 on average. 64% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 209 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 | $28,842 |
| $30–48k | $27,294 |
| $48–75k | $30,183 |
| $75–110k | $31,398 |
| $110k+ | $37,571 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 620 of these 975 students, totalling $4,744,719 — an average of $7,653 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Johnson 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)