Saint Norbert College
Private College in De Pere, WI. Six-year graduation rate 72%. Median 10-year earnings $58,363.
Students who entered Saint Norbert College land at a median of $58,363 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is a strength: 72% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $26,731, 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.5 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 86%, Saint Norbert College takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool runs to 3,304, typical for a school of this reach. A 14% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 5% 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 | 525–680 | 20 (5%) |
| SAT Math | 508–610 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–28 | 123 (32%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 72% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention is strong at 84%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Transfer-out runs to 22% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,749 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $27,880 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $19,721 at the $0–30k band to $29,888 at $110k+. Most students get help: 98% receive grants worth $28,280 on average. About 52% 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 · 490 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 | $19,721 |
| $30–48k | $21,811 |
| $48–75k | $21,918 |
| $75–110k | $23,332 |
| $110k+ | $29,888 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 909 of these 1,749 students, totalling $5,779,087 — an average of $6,358 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Brown 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)