Tiffin University
Private College in Tiffin, OH. Six-year graduation rate 40%. Median 10-year earnings $35,942.
Students who entered Tiffin University reach a median of $35,942 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Only 40% finish within six years, so roughly three in five students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Median debt at graduation reaches $27,000, 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 0.75 — elevated (above 0.60)
- ! Mobility score 0.5 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Tiffin University accepts 80% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 5,949 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Only 11% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 21% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the 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 | 470–555 | 108 (21%) |
| SAT Math | 440–555 | |
| ACT Composite | 15–21 | 257 (50%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A six-year graduation rate of 40% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. First-year retention is 72% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 33% of students transfer out, which reframes what the graduation rate above is measuring. The part-time picture is harder: 41% return, against 72% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,938 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $26,068 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($24,278 versus $29,977), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 86% of students get grant aid averaging $19,098, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 69% 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 · 475 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 | $24,278 |
| $30–48k | $22,255 |
| $48–75k | $24,974 |
| $75–110k | $29,205 |
| $110k+ | $29,977 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,338 of these 1,938 students, totalling $9,495,387 — an average of $7,097 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Seneca 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)