University of Portland
Private College in Portland, OR. Six-year graduation rate 80%. Median 10-year earnings $82,804.
Students who entered University of Portland reach a median of $82,804 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Completion is a strength: 80% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $21,370, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 80% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.9 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 89% of applicants are accepted. 8,289 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 10% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 6% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 580–670 | 42 (6%) |
| SAT Math | 580–700 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–31 | 21 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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80% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 88%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Transfer-out runs to 17% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 9:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 3,104 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $30,985 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $20,070 at the $0–30k band to $37,284 at $110k+. Most students get help: 98% receive grants worth $37,812 on average. 39% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 728 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 | $20,070 |
| $30–48k | $16,577 |
| $48–75k | $23,858 |
| $75–110k | $27,021 |
| $110k+ | $37,284 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,211 of these 3,104 students, totalling $7,764,407 — an average of $6,412 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Multnomah 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)