Simmons College
of Kentucky
Private College in Louisville, KY. Six-year graduation rate 13%.
- ! Graduation rate 13% — below national average
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 100%, Simmons College of Kentucky takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool is small at 178, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. A 82% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through.
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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A six-year graduation rate of 13% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Retention of 64% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 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. At 10:1, 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 378 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $16,723 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $18,434 at $0–30k, $25,018 at $75–110k. 60% of students receive grant aid, averaging $10,959 — common but not automatic. Only 16% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 153 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 | $18,434 |
| $30–48k | $21,313 |
| $48–75k | $23,534 |
| $75–110k | $25,018 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 61 of these 378 students, totalling $538,660 — an average of $8,830 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Jefferson 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)