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Private College

University of
La Verne

Private College in La Verne, CA. Six-year graduation rate 63%. Median 10-year earnings $65,464.

Verdict Solid outcomes
University of La Verne · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$65,464
Median debt at grad
$23,500
Mobility score
3.6
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
63.2%
Federal loan default
0%

Students who entered University of La Verne reach a median of $65,464 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Six-year completion sits at 63%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates carry a median of $23,500 in debt — in line with the national norm. On economic mobility, 3.6% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Admissions

Acceptance rate
71%
Applicants
7,110
Yield rate
9.8%

71% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 7,110 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 10% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 5% 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 498–663 24 (5%)
SAT Math 488–573
ACT Composite 18–25 9 (2%)

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

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Academics

Full-time retention
64%
Transfer-out rate
35%
Student:faculty
10:1

63% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 64% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 35% of students transfer out, which reframes what the graduation rate above is measuring. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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

Average net price
$21,530
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
85%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
64%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,352 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Students pay an average of $21,530 annually once grants are applied. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $20,151 at the $0–30k band to $44,064 at $110k+. Most students get help: 85% receive grants worth $32,624 on average. Most students borrow — 64% take federal loans to cover the gap.

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.

% receiving grants
100%
Average grant
$40,688

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 737 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 $20,151
$30–48k $27,212
$48–75k $54,632
$75–110k
$110k+ $44,064

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 2,149 of these 3,352 students, totalling $15,728,817 — an average of $7,319 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,863/mo
1 bedroom
$2,085/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,601/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
365
Yellow Ribbon
Yes
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate University of La Verne

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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