University of Hartford
Private College in West Hartford, CT. Six-year graduation rate 57%. Median 10-year earnings $60,823.
Students who entered University of Hartford reach a median of $60,823 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 58% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings.
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
With an acceptance rate of 96%, University of Hartford takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool is large — 12,221 in the most recent cycle — so the published rate reflects genuine competition rather than a small-sample quirk. Yield is low at 10%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 22% 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 | 570–660 | 257 (22%) |
| SAT Math | 550–650 | |
| ACT Composite | 24–30 | 23 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 58%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. First-year retention of 83% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. 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. 28% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 4,032 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $31,261 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $25,925 at the $0–30k band to $34,833 at $110k+. 95% of students get grant aid averaging $32,013, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 67% 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 · 1,307 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 | $25,925 |
| $30–48k | $24,512 |
| $48–75k | $27,277 |
| $75–110k | $30,956 |
| $110k+ | $34,833 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,721 of these 4,032 students, totalling $17,532,806 — an average of $6,444 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Capitol Planning Region) — 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)