University of
Saint Joseph
Private College in West Hartford, CT. Six-year graduation rate 64%. Median 10-year earnings $59,908.
Students who entered University of Saint Joseph land at a median of $59,908 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 64%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Debt is the pressure point: a median of $27,000 at graduation. It also moves people — 3.0% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
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 79% puts University of Saint Joseph on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. The applicant pool runs to 2,050, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 12%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 13% 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 | 440–610 | 25 (13%) |
| SAT Math | 410–560 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at University of Saint Joseph →Academics
64% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 82% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 25% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 10:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 825 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $29,300 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($24,563 versus $31,958), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Most students get help: 94% receive grants worth $26,879 on average. 75% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 173 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 | $24,563 |
| $30–48k | $23,940 |
| $48–75k | $24,054 |
| $75–110k | $27,701 |
| $110k+ | $31,958 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 621 of these 825 students, totalling $4,301,408 — an average of $6,927 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Capitol 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)