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Siena Heights University

Private College in Adrian, MI. Six-year graduation rate 39%. Median 10-year earnings $57,529.

Verdict Solid outcomes
Siena Heights University · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$57,529
Median debt at grad
$18,750
Mobility score
0.8
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
39%
Federal loan default
0%

The median ten-year earnings figure of $57,529 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Completion is the weak point: 39% graduate within six years. Graduates carry a median of $18,750 in debt — in line with the national norm.

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

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.33 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags
  • ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented

Admissions

Acceptance rate
69%
Applicants
1,418
Yield rate
36.3%

An acceptance rate of 69% puts Siena Heights University on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. With 1,418 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. Yield sits at 36% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 10% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.

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 413–528 34 (10%)
SAT Math 393–545
ACT Composite 16–23 23 (7%)

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

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Academics

Full-time retention
70%
Transfer-out rate
33%
Student:faculty
14:1

Only 39% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential. 70% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. 33% of students transfer out, which reframes what the graduation rate above is measuring. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$17,520
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
88%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
73%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,582 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Net price lands at $17,520 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price varies modestly by income — $15,624 at $0–30k against $17,857 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Most students get help: 88% receive grants worth $15,670 on average. 73% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.

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
$26,984

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 288 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 $15,624
$30–48k $15,145
$48–75k $17,260
$75–110k $18,284
$110k+ $17,857

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 1,158 of these 1,582 students, totalling $8,384,087 — an average of $7,240 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Lenawee County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$804/mo
1 bedroom
$889/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,166/mo

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

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How we evaluate Siena Heights University

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