Saint Joseph
Seminary College
Private College in St. Benedict, LA. Six-year graduation rate 48%. Median 10-year earnings $38,366.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,366, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 48%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish.
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
Academics
Completion is middling: 48% finish inside six years. 71% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. 26% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 6:1, 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 91 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $44,114 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Income makes less difference than usual: $42,549 at $0–30k, $49,944 at $110k+. Grant aid is limited — 33% of students receive any. Only 3% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 14 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 | $42,549 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | $46,799 |
| $75–110k | $35,632 |
| $110k+ | $49,944 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 3 of these 91 students, totalling $15,342 — an average of $5,114 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (St. Tammany Parish) — 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)