Monmouth University
Private College in West Long Branch, NJ. Six-year graduation rate 72%. Median 10-year earnings $67,991.
Ten-year median earnings of $67,991 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 72% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings. On economic mobility, 2.1% 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 89%, Monmouth University takes nearly everyone who applies. 9,321 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 10% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 18% 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 | 580–660 | 150 (18%) |
| SAT Math | 560–650 | |
| ACT Composite | 24–29 | 17 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Monmouth University →Academics
A 72% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention is strong at 80%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. 23% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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 3,831 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $34,072 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $18,924 at the $0–30k band to $39,015 at $110k+. Most students get help: 98% receive grants worth $27,929 on average. Borrowing is widespread: 61% take federal loans.
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 · 974 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 | $18,924 |
| $30–48k | $19,404 |
| $48–75k | $25,331 |
| $75–110k | $33,773 |
| $110k+ | $39,015 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,333 of these 3,831 students, totalling $15,883,166 — an average of $6,808 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Monmouth 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)