University of
Sioux Falls
Private College in Sioux Falls, SD. Six-year graduation rate 63%. Median 10-year earnings $54,521.
Ten years after entry, the median University of Sioux Falls student earns $54,521 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 63%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $23,249, 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
83% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 2,291, typical for a school of this reach. Only 15% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere.
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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 63% finish inside six years. Retention of 74% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The 37% transfer-out rate is high enough that a large share of this school's students are really passing through. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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 1,255 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,385 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $18,145 at $0–30k, $24,038 at $110k+. 95% of students get grant aid averaging $12,983, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 68% take federal loans.
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 · 308 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 | $18,145 |
| $30–48k | $17,804 |
| $48–75k | $17,992 |
| $75–110k | $21,375 |
| $110k+ | $24,038 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 855 of these 1,255 students, totalling $5,585,693 — an average of $6,533 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Minnehaha 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)