University of
the Arts

Admissions

78% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. Only 1,367 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. 23% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction.

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.

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

Academics

69% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 81% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. 17% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 7:1 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

Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $44,510 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($42,104 versus $46,757), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $26,324, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 87% take federal loans to cover the gap.

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.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24