University of Connecticut-Stamford
Public College in Stamford, CT. Six-year graduation rate 57%. Median 10-year earnings $73,997.
Students who entered University of Connecticut-Stamford reach a median of $73,997 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Six-year completion sits at 57%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $21,500, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 83% puts University of Connecticut-Stamford on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 10,937 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. A 10% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 28% 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 | 470–630 | 265 (28%) |
| SAT Math | 460–630 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–32 | 15 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 57% finish inside six years. 82% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 18% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 21:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,177 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $15,566 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The income table below is the number that matters — $11,632 at $0–30k versus $28,354 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $14,406. About 36% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 614 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 | $11,632 |
| $30–48k | $11,792 |
| $48–75k | $16,052 |
| $75–110k | $21,916 |
| $110k+ | $28,354 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 784 of these 2,177 students, totalling $4,839,580 — an average of $6,173 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Western Connecticut Planning Region) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026