University of Dallas
Private College in Irving, TX. Six-year graduation rate 73%. Median 10-year earnings $58,285.
Students who entered University of Dallas land at a median of $58,285 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 73% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $23,117 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
At 53%, the acceptance rate makes University of Dallas a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. 3,664 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield sits at 20% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 40% 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 | 580–700 | 158 (40%) |
| SAT Math | 540–670 | |
| ACT Composite | 22–29 | 76 (19%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at University of Dallas →Academics
A 73% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. First-year retention is 77% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. 19% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 11:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,403 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $29,209 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $12,711 while those at $110k+ pay $32,608. 98% of students get grant aid averaging $35,975, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 44% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 347 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 | $12,711 |
| $30–48k | $15,431 |
| $48–75k | $17,075 |
| $75–110k | $20,384 |
| $110k+ | $32,608 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 624 of these 1,403 students, totalling $3,843,794 — an average of $6,160 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Dallas 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)