St. Mary's University
Private College in San Antonio, TX. Six-year graduation rate 59%. Median 10-year earnings $56,955.
Ten years after entry, the median St. Mary's University student earns $56,955 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 59%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,563, neither a bargain nor a burden. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 5.1% 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 98%, St. Mary's University takes nearly everyone who applies. 4,724 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 13% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below rest on the 41% 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 | 465–665 | 239 (41%) |
| SAT Math | 435–645 | |
| ACT Composite | 15–27 | 65 (11%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 59%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. 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 1,908 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $20,412 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $18,352 at $0–30k, $24,649 at $110k+. 97% of students get grant aid averaging $27,082, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Federal borrowing reaches 52% 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 · 527 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 | $18,352 |
| $30–48k | $21,470 |
| $48–75k | $20,553 |
| $75–110k | $22,331 |
| $110k+ | $24,649 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 994 of these 1,908 students, totalling $6,666,519 — an average of $6,707 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bexar 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)