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Reinhardt University

Private College in Waleska, GA. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $46,541.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Reinhardt University · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$46,541
Median debt at grad
$23,900
Mobility score
1.3
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
43.8%
Federal loan default
0%

The median ten-year earnings figure of $46,541 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 44%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation is $23,900, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Admissions

Acceptance rate
62%
Applicants
1,841
Yield rate
29.5%

62% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 1,841 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. 30% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction.

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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Academics

Full-time retention
62%
Transfer-out rate
18%
Student:faculty
11:1

44% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 62% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 18% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 11:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$24,550
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
98%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
60%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,012 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Net price lands at $24,550 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $21,877 at $0–30k, $26,816 at $110k+. 98% of students get grant aid averaging $23,833, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 60% 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.

% receiving grants
100%
Average grant
$21,932

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 315 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 $21,877
$30–48k $21,977
$48–75k $23,758
$75–110k $28,296
$110k+ $26,816

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 609 of these 1,012 students, totalling $3,746,382 — an average of $6,152 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Cherokee County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,585/mo
1 bedroom
$1,660/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,820/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
63
Yellow Ribbon
Yes
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Reinhardt University

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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