Moravian University
Private College in Bethlehem, PA. Six-year graduation rate 72%. Median 10-year earnings $61,860.
Students who entered Moravian University reach a median of $61,860 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 72% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $26,793 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 54% of applicants are offered a place. 6,192 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 16% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below rest on the 19% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 540–655 | 99 (19%) |
| SAT Math | 530–630 | |
| ACT Composite | 24–29 | 9 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 72% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 79% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in five are gone before sophomore year. Transfer-out runs to 21% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 10:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,970 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $31,743 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $24,609 at $0–30k versus $34,834 at $110k+. 92% of students get grant aid averaging $33,266, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 76% 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 · 512 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 | $24,609 |
| $30–48k | $28,271 |
| $48–75k | $26,390 |
| $75–110k | $30,595 |
| $110k+ | $34,834 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,503 of these 1,970 students, totalling $10,020,172 — an average of $6,667 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Northampton 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)