Saint Martin's University
Private College in Lacey, WA. Six-year graduation rate 52%. Median 10-year earnings $62,092.
Students who entered Saint Martin's University reach a median of $62,092 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Six-year completion sits at 52%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $22,500, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree. On economic mobility, 3.0% of students travel 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
With an acceptance rate of 90%, Saint Martin's University takes nearly everyone who applies. 2,127 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 13% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 12% 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 | 510–610 | 29 (12%) |
| SAT Math | 515–620 | |
| ACT Composite | 16–20 | 9 (4%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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52% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 65% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. 30% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,254 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $29,116 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $22,810 at the $0–30k band to $33,354 at $110k+. 91% of students get grant aid averaging $30,823, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 69% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 258 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 | $22,810 |
| $30–48k | $24,499 |
| $48–75k | $24,997 |
| $75–110k | $30,232 |
| $110k+ | $33,354 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 870 of these 1,254 students, totalling $4,006,645 — an average of $4,605 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Thurston 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)