Tuskegee University
Private College in Tuskegee, AL. Six-year graduation rate 55%. Median 10-year earnings $49,641.
Students who entered Tuskegee University land at a median of $49,641 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 55%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings. It also moves people — 5.2% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution 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
At 49%, the acceptance rate makes Tuskegee University a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. 11,632 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. Only 14% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 25% of enrolled first-years submitted an ACT 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 | — | 4 (1%) |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | 18–25 | 200 (25%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 55% finish inside six years. 81% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. 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. A 14:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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 2,367 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $24,344 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $34,324 at $0–30k, $36,778 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 91% of students receive it, averaging $23,740. Borrowing is widespread: 60% take federal loans.
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 · 859 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 | $34,324 |
| $30–48k | $34,069 |
| $48–75k | $34,855 |
| $75–110k | $37,772 |
| $110k+ | $36,778 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,419 of these 2,367 students, totalling $8,680,899 — an average of $6,118 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Macon 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)