Saint Edward's University
Private College in Austin, TX. Six-year graduation rate 63%. Median 10-year earnings $58,826.
Ten years after entry, the median Saint Edward's University student earns $58,826 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Six-year completion sits at 63%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $24,803, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.7% 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
81% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 5,830 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 10% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 18% 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 | 500–630 | 81 (18%) |
| SAT Math | 470–610 | |
| ACT Composite | 22–28 | 20 (4%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 63% finish inside six years. First-year retention of 80% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. Transfer-out runs to 22% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 12:1, 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 2,729 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $28,766 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $20,799 while those at $110k+ pay $38,389. Grant aid is widespread — 94% of students receive it, averaging $34,444. About 48% 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 · 659 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 | $20,799 |
| $30–48k | $20,136 |
| $48–75k | $22,944 |
| $75–110k | $26,687 |
| $110k+ | $38,389 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,302 of these 2,729 students, totalling $8,123,764 — an average of $6,239 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Travis 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)