Waynesburg University
Private College in Waynesburg, PA. Six-year graduation rate 66%. Median 10-year earnings $58,537.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $58,537 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Completion is a strength: 66% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation reaches $27,000, heavy enough to shape the years right after the degree. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.4% 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 90%, Waynesburg University takes nearly everyone who applies. 1,562 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Only 19% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 15% 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 | 470–630 | 40 (15%) |
| SAT Math | 460–620 | |
| ACT Composite | 19–23 | 8 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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66% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. First-year retention is 72% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. A 24% 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. At 12:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, 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 1,081 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $18,667 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $12,916 at the $0–30k band to $27,921 at $110k+. 98% of students get grant aid averaging $22,142, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 74% 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 · 335 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 | $12,916 |
| $30–48k | $11,974 |
| $48–75k | $14,786 |
| $75–110k | $19,300 |
| $110k+ | $27,921 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 803 of these 1,081 students, totalling $5,274,220 — an average of $6,568 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Greene 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)