University of
West Florida
Public College in Pensacola, FL. Six-year graduation rate 59%. Median 10-year earnings $49,137.
Students who entered University of West Florida land at a median of $49,137 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 59% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Graduates carry a median of $16,624 in debt — in line with the national norm. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.0% of students move 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.34 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 58% of applicants are offered a place. The applicant pool is large — 10,201 in the most recent cycle — so the published rate reflects genuine competition rather than a small-sample quirk. 26% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 49% 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 | 520–630 | 758 (49%) |
| SAT Math | 500–600 | |
| ACT Composite | 20–27 | 1,077 (70%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 59%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. 89% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. The part-time picture is harder: 70% return, against 89% full-time. At 22:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 9,051 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $10,092 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $4,815 while those at $110k+ pay $16,620. Grant aid reaches 72% of students at an average of $9,041. Federal borrowing reaches 27% 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 · 1,277 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 | $4,815 |
| $30–48k | $6,462 |
| $48–75k | $8,077 |
| $75–110k | $12,456 |
| $110k+ | $16,620 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,438 of these 9,051 students, totalling $17,096,928 — an average of $7,013 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Escambia 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)