University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Public Research University in North Dartmouth, MA. Six-year graduation rate 52%. Median 10-year earnings $68,804.
A decade after enrolling, the median University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth student earns $68,804 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate is 52%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,000, neither a bargain nor a burden.
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
Admission is not the constraint here: 91% of applicants are accepted. With 10,669 applications received, this is a school operating at national scale. Yield is low at 14%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 10% 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 | 530–640 | 129 (10%) |
| SAT Math | 520–630 | |
| ACT Composite | 26–30 | 11 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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52% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 64% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. A 29% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The part-time picture is harder: 36% return, against 64% full-time. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,289 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $21,094 annually once grants are applied. The income table below is the number that matters — $15,976 at $0–30k versus $28,147 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 81% of students at an average of $12,118. Borrowing is widespread: 68% take federal loans.
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 · 1,362 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 | $15,976 |
| $30–48k | $16,042 |
| $48–75k | $17,530 |
| $75–110k | $22,273 |
| $110k+ | $28,147 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 3,604 of these 5,289 students, totalling $22,666,272 — an average of $6,289 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bristol 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)