Stevenson University
Private College in Owings Mills, MD. Six-year graduation rate 68%. Median 10-year earnings $62,079.
A decade after enrolling, the median Stevenson University student earns $62,079 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate of 69% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Graduates carry a median of $26,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
79% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 5,709 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 17%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling.
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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 69% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention of 79% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Transfer-out runs to 25% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 3,027 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $27,162 annually once grants are applied. The income table below is the number that matters — $15,894 at $0–30k versus $31,892 at $110k+. 92% of students get grant aid averaging $28,843, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 70% take federal loans.
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 · 793 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 | $15,894 |
| $30–48k | $20,935 |
| $48–75k | $26,937 |
| $75–110k | $29,277 |
| $110k+ | $31,892 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,113 of these 3,027 students, totalling $14,499,353 — an average of $6,862 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Baltimore 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)