Trine University
Private College in Angola, IN. Six-year graduation rate 64%. Median 10-year earnings $57,165.
Students who entered Trine University land at a median of $57,165 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 64% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Graduates carry a median of $25,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
Admission is not the constraint here: 85% of applicants are accepted. The applicant pool runs to 3,988, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 19%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling.
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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64% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. First-year retention of 80% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. Transfer-out runs to 24% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,335 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $25,355 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $19,661 at the $0–30k band to $29,066 at $110k+. 99% of students get grant aid averaging $24,594, 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 · 680 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 | $19,661 |
| $30–48k | $20,470 |
| $48–75k | $19,463 |
| $75–110k | $24,031 |
| $110k+ | $29,066 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,612 of these 2,335 students, totalling $10,123,301 — an average of $6,280 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Steuben 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)