Rose-Hulman Institute
of Technology
Private College in Terre Haute, IN. Six-year graduation rate 78%. Median 10-year earnings $101,253.
Ten-year median earnings of $101,253 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. The six-year graduation rate of 78% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,000, neither a bargain nor a burden. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.2% of students move 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 78% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology accepts 77% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 6,097 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 13% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below as the middle 50% of submitted scores, not a threshold to clear.
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 | 650–730 | 321 (53%) |
| SAT Math | 670–770 | |
| ACT Composite | 29–34 | 176 (29%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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78% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. First-year retention of 92% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. Transfer-out runs to 19% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,224 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $45,406 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $36,843 while those at $110k+ pay $45,994. Grant aid is widespread — 99% of students receive it, averaging $31,176. About 42% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 552 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 | $36,843 |
| $30–48k | $33,742 |
| $48–75k | $37,396 |
| $75–110k | $38,843 |
| $110k+ | $45,994 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 926 of these 2,224 students, totalling $5,892,930 — an average of $6,364 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Vigo 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)