Quinnipiac University
Private College in Hamden, CT. Six-year graduation rate 76%. Median 10-year earnings $83,759.
Ten-year median earnings of $83,759 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. The six-year graduation rate of 76% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $26,000, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 76% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.9 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
72% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 23,949 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. Only 11% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 22% 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 | 580–660 | 422 (22%) |
| SAT Math | 570–660 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–30 | 63 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 76% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 89% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. 18% 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 6,208 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $40,632 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The income table below is the number that matters — $33,649 at $0–30k versus $42,891 at $110k+. Most students get help: 97% receive grants worth $30,817 on average. Most students borrow — 60% 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 · 1,797 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 | $33,649 |
| $30–48k | $35,827 |
| $48–75k | $36,507 |
| $75–110k | $39,096 |
| $110k+ | $42,891 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 3,714 of these 6,208 students, totalling $23,746,766 — an average of $6,394 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (South Central Connecticut Planning Region) — 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)