Seton Hall University
Private Research University in South Orange, NJ. Six-year graduation rate 69%. Median 10-year earnings $70,196.
Ten-year median earnings of $70,196 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 70% of students finish within six years. Graduates carry a median of $22,750 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 3.2% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution 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 0.32 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Seton Hall University accepts 73% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 24,776 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. Only 9% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 25% 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 | 620–700 | 400 (25%) |
| SAT Math | 600–690 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–32 | 85 (5%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 70% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 81% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Transfer-out runs to 23% — 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. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,914 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $33,896 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The income table below is the number that matters — $19,623 at $0–30k versus $41,783 at $110k+. Most students get help: 96% receive grants worth $31,970 on average. Federal borrowing reaches 52% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 1,569 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 | $19,623 |
| $30–48k | $21,869 |
| $48–75k | $27,194 |
| $75–110k | $36,516 |
| $110k+ | $41,783 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 3,065 of these 5,914 students, totalling $19,580,472 — an average of $6,388 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Essex 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)