Thomas More University
Private College in Crestview Hills, KY. Six-year graduation rate 41%. Median 10-year earnings $59,384.
Students who entered Thomas More University land at a median of $59,384 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 41%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $26,236, 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
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 90%, Thomas More University takes nearly everyone who applies. 3,242 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 13% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 6% 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 | 510–610 | 21 (6%) |
| SAT Math | 520–620 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–27 | 146 (40%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 41%, meaning about three in five students who enroll leave without finishing. First-year retention is 67% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. With 35% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,304 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $22,297 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The income table below is the number that matters — $15,841 at $0–30k versus $25,267 at $110k+. Most students get help: 96% receive grants worth $25,425 on average. 74% 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 · 397 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 | $15,841 |
| $30–48k | $17,955 |
| $48–75k | $18,429 |
| $75–110k | $23,815 |
| $110k+ | $25,267 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 967 of these 1,304 students, totalling $6,040,680 — an average of $6,247 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kenton 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)