University of
Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Public College in Chickasha, OK. Six-year graduation rate 44%. Median 10-year earnings $41,913.
Ten-year median earnings of $41,913 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 44% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $21,750, neither a bargain nor a burden. On economic mobility, 2.0% of students travel from the bottom income quintile 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 66% puts University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. With 980 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. About 36% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 2% 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 | 580–700 | 5 (2%) |
| SAT Math | 510–580 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–26 | 116 (51%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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44% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 66% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. 17% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 13:1, 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 897 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $8,070 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The income table below is the number that matters — $3,493 at $0–30k versus $14,413 at $110k+. Most students get help: 92% receive grants worth $13,538 on average. Federal borrowing reaches 38% of students.
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 · 269 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 | $3,493 |
| $30–48k | $3,548 |
| $48–75k | $7,223 |
| $75–110k | $13,352 |
| $110k+ | $14,413 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 340 of these 897 students, totalling $2,275,294 — an average of $6,692 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Grady 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)