Texas Wesleyan University
Private College in Fort Worth, TX. Six-year graduation rate 32%. Median 10-year earnings $54,053.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $54,053 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 32% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $23,125, neither a bargain nor a burden.
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
- ! Graduation rate 32% — below national average
Admissions
Texas Wesleyan University accepts 69% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 5,036 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 14%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 16% 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 | 500–520 | 78 (16%) |
| SAT Math | 520–580 | |
| ACT Composite | — | 4 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is the problem here: 32% graduate within six years. 61% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 1,667 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $26,416 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $21,812 at the $0–30k band to $31,090 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 98% of students receive it, averaging $26,190. Federal borrowing reaches 45% 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 · 490 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 | $21,812 |
| $30–48k | $22,876 |
| $48–75k | $25,687 |
| $75–110k | $27,699 |
| $110k+ | $31,090 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 746 of these 1,667 students, totalling $4,541,091 — an average of $6,087 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)