University of Redlands
Private College in Redlands, CA. Six-year graduation rate 67%. Median 10-year earnings $72,690.
Students who entered University of Redlands reach a median of $72,690 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. The six-year graduation rate of 67% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Graduates carry a median of $26,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
University of Redlands accepts 83% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 3,766 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 16% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 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 | 560–680 | 78 (16%) |
| SAT Math | 547–670 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–28 | 13 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 67% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. First-year retention of 84% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 23% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 10:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,082 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $28,482 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $28,287 at $0–30k versus $38,257 at $110k+. 91% of students get grant aid averaging $39,589, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 56% 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 · 481 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 | $28,287 |
| $30–48k | $25,728 |
| $48–75k | $26,196 |
| $75–110k | $25,767 |
| $110k+ | $38,257 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,161 of these 2,082 students, totalling $8,069,251 — an average of $6,950 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Bernardino 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)