Saint Johns University
Private College in Collegeville, MN. Six-year graduation rate 75%. Median 10-year earnings $76,786.
Ten-year median earnings of $76,786 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 75% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 75% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 1.0 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Saint Johns University admits 91% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. 1,685 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield sits at 22% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. 4% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
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 | 503–635 | 14 (4%) |
| SAT Math | 438–593 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–27 | 165 (49%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 75% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention is strong at 86%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 1,481 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,468 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $28,504 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. The income table below is the number that matters — $10,354 at $0–30k versus $32,822 at $110k+. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $37,271, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 55% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 365 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 | $10,354 |
| $30–48k | $9,715 |
| $48–75k | $16,196 |
| $75–110k | $22,913 |
| $110k+ | $32,822 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 811 of these 1,468 students, totalling $5,113,347 — an average of $6,305 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Stearns 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)