University of
Maryland-College Park
Public Research University in College Park, MD. Six-year graduation rate 89%. Median 10-year earnings $82,860.
Students who entered University of Maryland-College Park reach a median of $82,860 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Completion is a strength: 89% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation is $19,000, 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 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 89% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 45% of applicants are offered a place. With 60,056 applications received, this is a school operating at national scale. Yield sits at 22% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 42% 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 | 690–750 | 2,448 (42%) |
| SAT Math | 710–780 | |
| ACT Composite | 32–35 | 411 (7%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at University of Maryland-College Park →Academics
A 89% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 96% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. With 30,608 undergraduates, this is a large institution — expect the administrative scale and the range of offerings that come with it.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 30,246 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,581 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $2,962 while those at $110k+ pay $26,691. About 53% get grants averaging $13,213, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 22% of students.
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 · 6,176 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 | $2,962 |
| $30–48k | $6,051 |
| $48–75k | $10,273 |
| $75–110k | $18,250 |
| $110k+ | $26,691 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 6,588 of these 30,246 students, totalling $40,765,008 — an average of $6,188 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Prince George's 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)