Texas Christian University
Private Research University in Fort Worth, TX. Six-year graduation rate 85%. Median 10-year earnings $68,424.
Students who entered Texas Christian University reach a median of $68,424 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 85% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $21,500, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 85% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 44% of applicants are offered a place. 22,307 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. 25% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 22% 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 | 580–680 | 548 (22%) |
| SAT Math | 560–670 | |
| ACT Composite | 26–31 | 503 (21%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Texas Christian University →Academics
A 85% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 93% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. The undergraduate body runs to 10,915, large enough that student experience varies widely by program.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 10,897 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $41,848 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 $17,956 while those at $110k+ pay $53,450. 81% of students receive grant aid, averaging $32,798 — common but not automatic. 25% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 2,488 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 | $17,956 |
| $30–48k | $16,980 |
| $48–75k | $17,940 |
| $75–110k | $34,990 |
| $110k+ | $53,450 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,738 of these 10,897 students, totalling $17,588,526 — an average of $6,424 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Tarrant 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)