Strayer University-Delaware
For-profit College in Wilmington, DE. Median 10-year earnings $40,092.
Ten-year median earnings of $40,092 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Median debt at graduation reaches $40,621, heavy enough to shape the years right after the degree.
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
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 1.01 — elevated (above 0.60)
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Just 0% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Unusually, part-time retention (29%) beats full-time, pointing to a student body that is part-time by design. The 47:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. Being a for-profit four-year institution is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 240 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $22,593 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Most students get help: 93% receive grants worth $6,002 on average. 80% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 1 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 | $22,593 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 193 of these 240 students, totalling $1,786,964 — an average of $9,259 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (New Castle County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026