St. John's College
Private College in Santa Fe, NM. Six-year graduation rate 55%. Median 10-year earnings $44,985.
Ten years after entry, the median St. John's College student earns $44,985 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. 55% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential.
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
St. John's College admits 53% of applicants and is genuinely selective — roughly one in two applicants are turned away. The applicant pool is small at 397, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. Yield sits at 37% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 35% 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 | 680–750 | 27 (35%) |
| SAT Math | 610–710 | |
| ACT Composite | 28–34 | 11 (14%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 55%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. First-year retention of 82% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. A 23% 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. The 8:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 371 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $25,209 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $16,014 while those at $110k+ pay $35,680. Grant aid is widespread — 94% of students receive it, averaging $27,753. Federal borrowing reaches 42% 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 · 74 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 | $16,014 |
| $30–48k | $17,151 |
| $48–75k | $19,053 |
| $75–110k | $21,551 |
| $110k+ | $35,680 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 155 of these 371 students, totalling $1,046,185 — an average of $6,750 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Santa Fe 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)