Rockhurst University
Private College in Kansas City, MO. Six-year graduation rate 75%. Median 10-year earnings $67,102.
Students who entered Rockhurst University reach a median of $67,102 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Completion is a strength: 75% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $18,250, 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 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 70% puts Rockhurst University on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 2,197 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 19% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 49% of enrolled first-years who submitted an ACT 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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | 19–26 | 144 (49%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Rockhurst University →Academics
Six-year completion runs to 75% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention of 79% 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. 2,430 undergraduates makes this a mid-sized institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,702 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $25,787 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $22,797 at $0–30k, $30,348 at $110k+. Most students get help: 92% receive grants worth $31,997 on average. 50% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 339 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 | $22,797 |
| $30–48k | $19,895 |
| $48–75k | $21,997 |
| $75–110k | $26,522 |
| $110k+ | $30,348 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 852 of these 1,702 students, totalling $5,959,444 — an average of $6,995 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Jackson 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)