University of
Mount Union
Private College in Alliance, OH. Six-year graduation rate 59%. Median 10-year earnings $53,217.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $53,217 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 59%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Debt is the pressure point: a median of $27,000 at graduation.
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
78% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 3,679 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. About 23% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 16% 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 | 460–620 | 104 (16%) |
| SAT Math | 450–620 | |
| ACT Composite | 18–25 | 371 (55%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 59%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. 77% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. 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. At 15:1, 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 1,785 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $23,616 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $16,786 while those at $110k+ pay $26,495. 99% of students get grant aid averaging $24,337, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 82% 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.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 536 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 | $16,786 |
| $30–48k | $19,428 |
| $48–75k | $17,741 |
| $75–110k | $23,474 |
| $110k+ | $26,495 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,471 of these 1,785 students, totalling $9,674,129 — an average of $6,577 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Stark 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)