Scripps College
Private College in Claremont, CA. Six-year graduation rate 83%. Median 10-year earnings $77,539.
Ten-year median earnings of $77,539 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 83% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,500 — modest by four-year standards. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.5% of students move 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.17 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 83% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 38% of applicants are offered a place. 3,199 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield sits at 26% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. The score bands below rest on the 24% 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 | 720–770 | 76 (24%) |
| SAT Math | 720–770 | |
| ACT Composite | 31–34 | 49 (16%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 83% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 94% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. This is a small school — 1,082 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 1,077 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $44,396 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $6,948 at the $0–30k band to $54,572 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 58% of students at an average of $40,654. 17% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.
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 · 275 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 | $6,948 |
| $30–48k | $4,522 |
| $48–75k | $15,831 |
| $75–110k | $36,472 |
| $110k+ | $54,572 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 186 of these 1,077 students, totalling $887,444 — an average of $4,771 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles 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)