Mount Saint
Mary College
Private College in Newburgh, NY. Six-year graduation rate 65%. Median 10-year earnings $67,705.
A decade after enrolling, the median Mount Saint Mary College student earns $67,705 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate of 66% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Graduates carry a median of $26,007 in debt — in line with the national norm. On economic mobility, 3.3% 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%, Mount Saint Mary College takes nearly everyone who applies. 3,219 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 7% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 6% of enrolled first-years submitted an ACT 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 | — | 4 (2%) |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | 19–28 | 12 (6%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 66% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention of 74% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 12:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. The undergraduate body is just 1,897, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,268 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $26,896 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $18,747 while those at $110k+ pay $31,316. 90% of students get grant aid averaging $22,829, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 67% 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 · 182 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 | $18,747 |
| $30–48k | $16,025 |
| $48–75k | $21,647 |
| $75–110k | $28,722 |
| $110k+ | $31,316 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 848 of these 1,268 students, totalling $5,983,736 — an average of $7,056 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Orange 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)