Spring Hill College
Private College in Mobile, AL. Six-year graduation rate 52%. Median 10-year earnings $51,500.
Ten years after entry, the median Spring Hill College student earns $51,500 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. 52% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Debt is the pressure point: a median of $27,000 at graduation. It also moves people — 2.6% 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
77% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 2,420 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 8% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Score ranges below describe the middle half of score submitters among enrolled first-years; students who applied test-optional 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 | — | 1 (1%) |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | 17–29 | 82 (54%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 52%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 70% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. A 29% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 850 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $22,858 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $15,598 while those at $110k+ pay $26,240. 96% of students get grant aid averaging $17,778, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 44% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 215 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 | $15,598 |
| $30–48k | $20,141 |
| $48–75k | $22,317 |
| $75–110k | $20,642 |
| $110k+ | $26,240 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 373 of these 850 students, totalling $2,393,063 — an average of $6,416 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Mobile County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring, Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); Heightened Cash Monitoring; School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)