University of
the Ozarks
Private College in Clarksville, AR. Six-year graduation rate 51%. Median 10-year earnings $44,384.
Students who entered University of the Ozarks land at a median of $44,384 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 52%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $20,875, 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
- ! Mobility score 0.9 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 60% of applicants are offered a place. 2,230 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 16% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 26% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
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 | 530–590 | 25 (26%) |
| SAT Math | 490–570 | |
| ACT Composite | 20–25 | 72 (74%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 52% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 69% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. A 25% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The 14:1 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 753 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $20,088 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $14,664 while those at $110k+ pay $22,836. Grant aid is widespread — 100% of students receive it, averaging $18,502. About 44% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 188 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 | $14,664 |
| $30–48k | $14,551 |
| $48–75k | $19,291 |
| $75–110k | $18,632 |
| $110k+ | $22,836 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 333 of these 753 students, totalling $1,856,491 — an average of $5,575 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Johnson 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)