St Lawrence University
Private College in Canton, NY. Six-year graduation rate 79%. Median 10-year earnings $67,258.
Ten-year median earnings of $67,258 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 79% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.1% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 79% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 54% of applicants are offered a place. The applicant pool runs to 6,089, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 13%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 15% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 645–710 | 64 (15%) |
| SAT Math | 610–710 | |
| ACT Composite | 30–33 | 20 (5%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at St Lawrence University →Academics
A 79% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 91% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. 14% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,040 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $33,216 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $13,420 while those at $110k+ pay $37,450. Most students get help: 98% receive grants worth $46,754 on average. Most students borrow — 55% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 545 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 | $13,420 |
| $30–48k | $14,008 |
| $48–75k | $19,401 |
| $75–110k | $24,263 |
| $110k+ | $37,450 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,112 of these 2,040 students, totalling $6,977,988 — an average of $6,275 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (St. Lawrence 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)