Mount Saint
Mary's University
Private College in Los Angeles, CA. Six-year graduation rate 52%. Median 10-year earnings $72,379.
A decade after enrolling, the median Mount Saint Mary's University student earns $72,379 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate is 52%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $25,949 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 6.4% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Mobility score 6.4 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Mount Saint Mary's University accepts 73% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 4,882 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 12%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling.
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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 52% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 71% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. The 47% transfer-out rate is high enough that a large share of this school's students are really passing through. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,745 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $27,368 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price varies modestly by income — $23,849 at $0–30k against $18,762 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 91% of students get grant aid averaging $33,781, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 69% 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 · 447 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 | $23,849 |
| $30–48k | $13,718 |
| $48–75k | $17,876 |
| $75–110k | $30,247 |
| $110k+ | $18,762 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,197 of these 1,745 students, totalling $8,178,405 — an average of $6,832 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles 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)