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Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

Private College in Saint Mary of the Woods, IN. Six-year graduation rate 46%. Median 10-year earnings $43,845.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$43,845
Median debt at grad
$19,512
Graduation rate
46.3%
Federal loan default
0%

Students who entered Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College land at a median of $43,845 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 46% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $19,512, neither a bargain nor a burden.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Admissions

Acceptance rate
72%
Applicants
1,228
Yield rate
20.8%

72% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. Only 1,228 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. About 21% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range.

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
SAT Math
ACT Composite

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

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Academics

Full-time retention
62%
Transfer-out rate
0%
Student:faculty
9:1

Completion is middling: 46% finish inside six years. Retention of 62% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. The 9:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$20,451
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
100%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
49%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 880 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Net price lands at $20,451 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $33,513 at $0–30k, $26,604 at $110k+. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $22,687, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Federal borrowing reaches 49% of students.

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.

% receiving grants
100%
Average grant
$28,601

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 207 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 $33,513
$30–48k $36,071
$48–75k $31,036
$75–110k $32,724
$110k+ $26,604

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 434 of these 880 students, totalling $3,401,474 — an average of $7,837 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.

Studio
$859/mo
1 bedroom
$864/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,094/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

VA caution flag

Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: Warning (Other - Provide unlisted or multiple justifications); School has an accreditation issue

GI Bill students
40
Yellow Ribbon
Yes
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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