University of Vermont
Public Research University in Burlington, VT. Six-year graduation rate 79%. Median 10-year earnings $62,472.
Ten-year median earnings of $62,472 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Completion is a strength: 79% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $20,951, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.34 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 79% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
University of Vermont accepts 65% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. The applicant pool is large — 27,138 in the most recent cycle — so the published rate reflects genuine competition rather than a small-sample quirk. Only 16% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 28% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 660–730 | 787 (28%) |
| SAT Math | 630–710 | |
| ACT Composite | 30–32 | 303 (11%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 79% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. First-year retention of 89% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The part-time picture is harder: 33% return, against 89% full-time. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 11,614 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $20,084 annually once grants are applied. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $11,127 at the $0–30k band to $25,775 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 90% of students receive it, averaging $18,727. Federal borrowing reaches 39% 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 · 2,881 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 | $11,127 |
| $30–48k | $13,373 |
| $48–75k | $14,339 |
| $75–110k | $20,926 |
| $110k+ | $25,775 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 4,539 of these 11,614 students, totalling $27,574,616 — an average of $6,075 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Chittenden 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)