University of
New Haven
Private College in West Haven, CT. Six-year graduation rate 63%. Median 10-year earnings $60,126.
A decade after enrolling, the median University of New Haven student earns $60,126 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Six-year completion sits at 63%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. 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
An acceptance rate of 60% puts University of New Haven on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 21,765 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. A 10% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 26% 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 | 540–645 | 338 (26%) |
| SAT Math | 520–620 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 63%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 76% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 4,854 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $34,557 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $27,837 at $0–30k versus $38,385 at $110k+. 94% of students get grant aid averaging $28,859, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 73% 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 · 1,294 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 | $27,837 |
| $30–48k | $29,043 |
| $48–75k | $31,601 |
| $75–110k | $34,853 |
| $110k+ | $38,385 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 3,525 of these 4,854 students, totalling $23,423,966 — an average of $6,645 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (South Central Connecticut 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)