Texas Lutheran University
Private College in Seguin, TX. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $53,863.
Students who entered Texas Lutheran University land at a median of $53,863 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 54%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $25,000 in debt — in line with the national norm. On economic mobility, 2.4% of students travel 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 96%, Texas Lutheran University takes nearly everyone who applies. 2,306 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 17% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class.
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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54% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 62% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. 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. At 1,291 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,263 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $25,119 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $20,512 while those at $110k+ pay $28,596. 93% of students get grant aid averaging $21,516, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 63% 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 · 287 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 | $20,512 |
| $30–48k | $22,843 |
| $48–75k | $24,243 |
| $75–110k | $24,555 |
| $110k+ | $28,596 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 798 of these 1,263 students, totalling $5,674,274 — an average of $7,111 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Guadalupe 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)