Southeastern Free
Will Baptist Bible College
Private College in Wendell, NC. Six-year graduation rate 42%.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 42% finish inside six years. Retention is strong at 81%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. At 8:1, 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 74 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $15,176 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($11,086 versus $16,703), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 97% of students get grant aid averaging $7,139, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 19% 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 · 19 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 | $11,086 |
| $30–48k | $11,469 |
| $48–75k | $12,766 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $16,703 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 14 of these 74 students, totalling $76,861 — an average of $5,490 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Wake 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)